The latest national intensification week focusing on county lines has been a success for Dorset Police. Intensification weeks are run nationally by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and co-ordinated by the National County Lines Coordination Centre (NCLCC). The intensification week ran from...
A man has been jailed for 13 years following a serious assault in Poole town centre.
Gary Patrick Sadler, aged 57 and of Victoria Road in Poole, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Monday 15 June 2020. Following a trial at the same court, he was found guilty of...
Officers investigating a report of a robbery involving a 12-year-old boy in Swanage are issuing a CCTV image of two suspects.
At around 10pm on Sunday 2 August 2020 the victim and his older brother were riding along the seafront on their hoverboards when they were approached by two unknown...
Detectives investigating an assault in Poole are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
At around 3pm on Wednesday 2 December 2020 a man aged in his 20s was walking down an alleyway from Coles Avenue to Hamilton Crescent when he heard someone shouting at him from...
Officers investigating reports of an assault in Ferndown are appealing for a potential further victim to come forward.
At around 7.50am on Wednesday 9 September 2020 a woman was cycling along the A348 Ringwood Road toward Ferndown. As she approached the M&S Foodhall she witnessed two teenage boys push an...
The use of Stop and Search by police against Black people in Dorset has reached unprecedented levels. Black people are now 31 times more likely than white people to be stopped under these powers. Shockingly, this is the highest rate of Stop and Search of an ethnic group of any police...
Dorset Police was called to the car park of the Horns Inn in Christchurch Road at 3.39pm on Saturday 9 May 2020 following a report from the ambulance service of two people requiring medical assistance.
A 41-year-old woman – named by detectives as Claire Parry of Bournemouth – was taken...
Officers investigating the theft of a wallet and fraudulent card use in Poole are issuing a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to.
Between 1pm and 5pm on Monday 5 October 2020 a wallet and purse were stolen from a staff area of a property in...
Officers investigating a reported altercation in Weymouth are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
Dorset Police received a report at around 1.15pm on Thursday 16 April 2020 of a disturbance on Abbotsbury Road, near to the junction with Chickerell Road, involving two women and a man.
Officers...
A man and woman have been found guilty of manslaughter in relation to the death of a man at his Weymouth home.
Hannah Jayne Rebecca Day, aged 29 and of Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Surrey, and Aaron Kirk Brown, aged 39 and of Lennox Street, Weymouth, were convicted on Thursday 8...
