Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward as they carry out enquiries into a burglary at a bike shop in Gillingham.
Shortly before 2.30am on Tuesday 21 February 2023 a break-in occurred at Wheels Cycles in Station Road and three bikes were taken.
The stolen items...
A landlord of a home with unsafe electrics has been issued with a significant financial penalty of £7,500 by Dorset Council.
Following a complaint about the property, officers from the council’s Housing Standards Team found the property to be in serious disrepair with an electrical system so dangerous it had...
A man has been charged following a fatal road traffic collision near Beaminster.
Dorset Police received a report at 8.13pm on Wednesday 8 February 2023 of a collision in A3066 Main Road in Mosterton involving a blue Mercedes and three pedestrians.
All of the pedestrians were taken to hospital by air...
Officers investigating the theft of a number of high value phones from a supermarket in Shaftesbury are issuing CCTV images of the suspects.
At around 6.35pm on Friday 3 February 2023 three suspects entered the Tesco store in Christy’s Lane and stole several iPhones from their display stands. The total...
Officers investigating a fail-to-stop road traffic collision in Blandford are appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.
At around 7am on Tuesday 17 January 2023 a collision occurred at the junction of Salisbury Street and Damory Street involving a bicycle and a white hatchback car. It...
Officers investigating a robbery at a service station in Shaftesbury are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.At 5.25am on Saturday 4 February 2023 a man entered Ivy Cross service station and threatened a member of staff with a hammer before stealing a pack of tobacco...
Officers investigating an assault at a food store in Gillingham are issuing a CCTV image of the suspect.
At around 5.25pm on Wednesday 21 December 2022 a women was acting suspiciously in Iceland in Station Road and was approached by a staff member.
It is reported that the woman grabbed the...
Police Constable Ravi Canhye, aged 46, was charged with offences on Tuesday 24 January 2023 and will appear at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Friday 3 February 2023 charged with eight sexual offences including two charges of rape.
The charges relate to offences against two women committed while Ravi Canhye was...
Carole Packman was murdered in Bournemouth in 1985 by Russell Causley, 79, who has steadfastly refused to say where her body has been released.After Causley fought for his release last month, the Parole Board decided it was safe for him to be released from jail.
The MoJ acknowledged that it...
Dorset remains the sixth safest area in the country after experiencing a rise in crime that is notably lower than other parts of England and Wales.
The Office for National Statistics released data on Thursday 26 January 2023, which shows that overall crime rose by 5.5 per cent in Dorset...
