Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Vera Baird QC, has welcomed ‘long-overdue’ plans for sex education and relationships education (SRE) to be made compulsory in all schools. Ms Baird has campaigned on the matter for years, calling on the government...
“It’s hard to believe that we are at the end of 2016 already, who would have thought at the beginning of the year we would have voted to leave Europe, have a new Prime Minister and that Donald Trump...
Northumbria Police and Northumberland County Council Trading Standards are clamping down on local premises found to be selling alcohol to underage people during the festive season. On Saturday 10 December, officers from the Alnwick Neighbourhood Policing Team were joined...
Burglars across the North East are set to receive a letter from Northumbria Police as part of a crackdown on burglary in the run up to Christmas. The letter informs the recipient that, due to previous convictions, they have...
Northumbria Police has launched a Winter Warmers 2016 appeal to help keep families who are less well-off warm this Christmas. The appeal has been launched by Sunderland West Neighbourhood Policing Team after a local neighbourhood beat manager learned a...
Northumbria Police is taking action to lock burglars out in the cold this winter as the force continues to crackdown on burglary. As Christmas fast approaches burglars start to take advantage of festive opportunities to break into people’s homes....
A new report from the think tank Governup will argue that top-down reform of criminal justice has failed and will argue for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and directly elected Mayors to be given greater power over youth justice,...
Emergency services in Newcastle city centre are working with partners to wish visitors a safe and happy Christmas. Over the next couple of weeks hundreds of thousands of extra visitors are expected into the city centre for Christmas parties...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird QC is offering her support to a domestic abuse campaign urging GP’s to “scrap the fee” for a domestic abuse doctor’s note. Domestic abuse victims applying for legal aid to have their...
Northumbria Police has been rated as GOOD in the latest HMIC inspection on legitimacy, published today (8 December). In a separate report, focusing on leadership, HMIC inspectors noted that the Chief Constable was “achieving significant culture change in the...
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