Northumbria’s Police & Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird has today insisted that Conservative Chancellor, George Osborne must pay back over £1 million pound to Northumbria Police. As exclusively revealed in the Chronicle, Mr Osborne has been told off by the...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird, is praising the work of a taskforce set up in Newcastle to tackle New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), otherwise known as ‘legal highs’. Compared to figures in January, and following the taskforce’s launch,...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird was joined by inspirational women across the region today (March 8) at an event to mark International Women’s Day. The annual awareness day is being celebrated across the world as the United...
Northumbria’s Police & Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird QC, is supporting Unison who have called upon the Home Secretary to bin her ideas to arm volunteer police community officers (PCSOs) with CS gas and PAVA spray. The Policing and Crime...
The three PCCs from across the North East are welcoming the UN Gift Box to our region for the first time, as part of a global ‘Stop the Traffik’ campaign aimed at educating people about modern day slavery. The...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird has expressed delight at news that the UK’s specialist unit for wildlife law enforcement will continue, following a successful national campaign to prevent its closure. It was feared that The Wildlife Crime...
The plea follows an increase in the number of reports received by police in Sunderland and South Tyneside about teenagers and young people posting images of themselves on social network sites of a sexually explicit nature. Officers are asking...
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