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Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision between Sherborne and Yeovil are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward – with one man being arrested. The incident, which happened on the A30 close to the junction with Marl Lane, was reported to police at 4.48pm on Thursday...
A Dorset Police constable has been dismissed from the Force after being found guilty of gross misconduct at a public hearing. Between Tuesday 28 September and Thursday 30 September 2021, a misconduct hearing was held at Dorset Police headquarters in Winfrith to consider allegations that Police Constable Sean Ford breached...
Sergeant Robbie Jephcott 2343 goes off the rails in a shameful, ego fuelled display of aggression towards a driver who refuses to follow his unlawful demands. For your protection: ALWAYS RECORD THE POLICE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlcqA0eq3E Why do they have to be like this? He is further undermining the reputation of the police....
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,...
Detectives investigating a reported assault in Sherborne are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward. The incident occurred at around 11am on Thursday 26 October 2023 in Horsecastles Lane. It is reported that the victim – a woman aged in her 50s – was assaulted by a man...
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...
Officers investigating a serious road traffic collision in Sherborne are appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward. The incident, which involved a red Ford Transit minibus, a red Toyota Yaris and a red Volkswagen Polo happened on the A30 Sherborne Road at Purse Caundle and was...
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...