The Home Affairs Select Committee Chair, Yvette Cooper MP, has written to the Home Secretary asking her to ensure that the files on Orgreave identified by South Yorkshire Police and other forces are now independently reviewed for release. Dame...
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The Police and Crime Panel for Northumbria have unanimously approved the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner’s proposed increase to the police precept (the police element of the council tax) of 15p per week for a Band A property or...
Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird has written to MPs across Northumbria to once again emphasise the need for a fair funding settlement from the government. In writing to MPs Baird wishes to address some of the ‘misleading information’...
Cyber specialist experts have been recruited to help Northumbria Police protect the public from internet-related crime. The force and Crime Commissioner Dame Vera Baird have recruited 18 volunteers who will identify people and businesses susceptible to exploitation or threat...
This is the warning from a group of local charities, the CPS, police, and Crime Commissioners who have joined forces to highlight the brutal practice. The message comes ahead of the United Nations’ International Day of Zero Tolerance for...
Police have carried out drugs warrants at six addresses across Sunderland as part of Operation Magnet. One man has been arrested on suspicion of drug-related offences. Cash and drugs have been seized by police, along with mobile phones and...
The charity Stonewall has announced the country’s top employers today – with Northumbria Police jumping nearly 100 places to cement its place in the top 100. Today (Wednesday) the LGBT+ charity announced their list of the best performing employers...
Pressure is mounting on the government over unfair questioning of rape complainants in court as today a campaign launches led by 2 former Solicitor Generals – eminent lawyer Dame Vera Baird QC, Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, and Harriet...
A scheme where police officers give a cuddly toy to young children they meet during their daily patrols has been expanded across the North East. The ‘Trauma Teddies’ scheme was launched in September but was started as a pilot...
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