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Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward after a vehicle was seen driving carelessly in Wimborne. At around 3.55pm on Monday 6 November 2023 officers attempted to stop a vehicle in Stone Lane. It is reported that the vehicle—a silver Subaru Forrester—failed to stop for...
Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a number of cars were broken into in Christchurch. The offences occurred overnight between the evening of Tuesday 14 May and the morning of Wednesday 15 May 2019. In total Dorset Police received reports involving seven cars being targeted in Saffron...
A detective constable with Dorset Police has been dismissed after being found to have committed gross misconduct. DC Nick Gravenor was the subject of a public misconduct hearing following a thorough investigation into allegations that he had used inappropriate sexualised language toward a colleague and subjected her to unwanted physical...
Update: A man has come forward following a CCTV appeal in relation to an alleged assault in Bournemouth. It was reported that at around 11.15pm on Saturday 17 February 2024 a man aged in his 60s was assaulted in Poole Hill and sustained serious facial injuries. Following a CCTV appeal and enquiries...
Detectives investigating a knifepoint robbery at a bookmakers in Bournemouth are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward. At around 11.05am today, Saturday 17 November 2018, a man entered Betfred in Commercial Road and threatened a female cashier with a large kitchen knife and ordered her to...
Officers investigating an assault on a man in Bournemouth are issuing a CCTV image of the suspect. At 10pm on Saturday 19 February 2022 an altercation occurred outside Felson’s Bar in Old Christchurch Road between a man aged in his 20s and a group of unknown men. It is alleged one...
A crackdown on under-age sales of e-cigarettes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, has revealed that more than half of the shops visited by trading standards are illegally selling vaping products to children. Two 14-year-old volunteers were sold a disposable vape in three out of five premises across BCP without being...
No good can come of carrying a knife, so bin it. This is the message from Dorset Police as it launches a knife amnesty in the county. Between Tuesday 18 September and Friday 21 September 2018 members of the public can dispose of unwanted knives and bladed items at designated police...
A man stopped by traffic officers for using his mobile phone was found to be in possession of drugs worth more than £2,500. Ashley Jack Louis Bouchex, aged 27 and of Elmgate Drive in Bournemouth, was sentenced to a total of three years in prison at Bournemouth Crown Court on...
Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a hate crime incident in Bournemouth. At around 8pm on Tuesday 5 September 2023 the victim, who is aged in his 60s, was leaving an address in Wakely Road when he noticed two men stood outside of the gate. Unprovoked, they...