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The media is full of evidence highlighting drug use amongst senior Tories... and yet they are the ones pontificating. The Speaker of the House has even called in the Met police to investigate cocaine... use across Parliament and yet here we are again with harsher punishments to deter drug use,...
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Officers investigating an assault on a teenage girl in Christchurch are appealing for witnesses and anyone who may have recorded the incident to come forward. At around 3.15pm on Thursday 1 April 2021 the victim – a local 13-year-old girl – left the park next to Mudeford Community Centre and...
Officers investigating a reported public order incident in Blandford are appealing for witnesses to come forward – with one person arrested. At approximately 3.45pm on Friday 10 March 2023, three teenage boys approached two teenage girls in Park Road Recreation Ground. It is alleged that one of the boys made threats...
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Officers investigating a reported fail-to-stop fatal collision in Poole are appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward – with seven people arrested. Dorset Police received a report at 9.46pm on Sunday 12 December 2021 of a collision involving a black Ford Fiesta and a pedestrian on...
A Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPOs) comes into force on 1 July that prevents people lighting fires, including BBQs, fireworks, lanterns, and campfires, in many areas across Dorset. Dorset Council is working with Forestry England and Dorset and Wiltshire Fire service to protect countryside area including heathlands, forests, and coastlines...
A Brexit Party candidate, Stephen Peddie, was found guilty this week of threatening to shoot Labour MP Dawn Butler in the Head. Peddie owns a licensed firearm. https://twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1480270000254504972?s=20 Peddie claimed it was justified in response to spending carried out by the MP on her property, reported by that first class...
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward following a serious assault in Bridport.It is reported that during the early hours of Monday 1 January 2024, a man and a woman were walking in the area of Fullbrooks Lane where the man was threatened and...
A gross misconduct hearing, chaired by Chief Constable James Vaughan, found a former inspector guilty of gross misconduct and he would have been dismissed from the Force had he not already resigned. On Friday 15 May 2020 a gross misconduct hearing was held at Dorset Police headquarters to consider a...
Officers investigating an incident where a boy was reportedly approached by a man in suspicious circumstances in Bournemouth are appealing for information. At around 5.30pm on Thursday 9 November 2023 a 12-year-old boy was at the junction of Montgomery Avenue and South Kinson Drive when a man got out of...
Detectives are appealing for anyone with information to come forward as they investigate the death of a man at an address in Weymouth. Dorset Police received a report at 11.07pm on Saturday 30 December 2023 relating to an incident where a man required medical assistance at the Hotel Central in...