Fly-tip in Stanford-le-Hope swiftly cleared
A FLY-tipping incident which partially blocked a main road in Stanford-le-Hope has been quickly cleared. At 7.45pm on Tuesday night (24 September), it was reported that a large amount of household and...
View ArticleSafer Essex Roads Partnership launch driver training programme
TODAY, the Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) launched their driver training programme, Business Driving in Essex. Over a third of those killed or seriously injured on Essex roads were undertaking...
View ArticleEssex Police take part in crackdown on drink spiking
POLICE officers from Essex Police took part in a targeted week of action as part of a crackdown on spiking across the county. From licensee checks and night-time patrols to education events and...
View ArticlePolice passing a message to South Ockendon scouts
MEMBERS of Thurrock Police’s Community Safety & Engagement team recently visited the 1st Ockendon’s Scout Group! Officers provided a ‘show and tell’ of Policing for Essex. The officer also...
View ArticlePolice search for man missing from South Ockendon
ESSEX Police are working hard to find Viktors Goronovs who is missing from his home in South Ockendon. Viktors, 40, was reported missing to us this afternoon and we’ve got officers searching for him....
View ArticleTwo men from Tilbury charged as part of drugs investigation
TWO men have been charged as part of an investigation into the supply of drugs in Thurrock. Anti-drug officers investigating the supply of Class A drugs in the area executed a warrant in Tilbury early...
View ArticleStanford-le-Hope: More than two years in jail for causing grievous bodily...
A MAN from Lancashire has been jailed after attacking another man in west Essex in broad daylight. Bernard Saunders, 30, of Occupation Lane in Poulton-le-Fylde, appeared before Basildon Crown Court on...
View ArticleEssex Police warned about its use of restraints
ESSEX Police has been warned about its use of restraints – such as handcuffs, spit hoods and leg restraints – in custody, with some detainees being held in them for hours reports the BBC. An...
View ArticleChadwell St Mary man Brett Baker jailed for 16 years for multiple sexual...
A MAN who was previously convicted of multiple sexual offences has been jailed thanks to work by our specialist officers. Brett Baker appeared at Basildon Crown Court on Friday 4 October where he was...
View ArticleBBC Crimewatch set to focus on tragic story of 39 bodies discovered in a...
THE tragic story of the 39 bodies discovered in a lorry trailer, and Essex Police’s investigation into the deaths, is to be told on BBC One’s Crimewatch. In the early hours of 23 October 2019, the...
View ArticleSix more arrests (including man from Tilbury) over £40m cocaine haul
SIX men have been arrested over a half-tonne haul of cocaine worth £40m seized on a West Sussex beach. The men were arrested in locations across England in a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation....
View ArticleMan arrested for drugs offences after East London warrant
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of crack, heroin and cocaine after a warrant was executed at an address in Stratford, East London. Officers from our Op Raptor...
View ArticleSeventy speeding drivers caught on camera at 11 sites across Essex as part of...
POLICE Roads Policing Unit officers conducted speed enforcement activities at 11 sites across Essex, resulting in 70 drivers being captured on camera. Each driver was exceeding the local speed limit...
View ArticleMan charged with drug offences as part of crackdown in Thurrock drugs line
A MAN has been charged with drugs offences following a warrant executed at a property in Stratford, East London. Jordan Antoine – also known as Charlie Brown or C-Money – aged 30, of 4 Simons Walk,...
View ArticleStanford-le-Hope: Chigwell Roads Policing officers arrest man in connection...
THANKS to Chigwell Roads Policing officers, a man has been arrested in connection with copper cable theft.Whilst on routine patrols, officers from Chigwell Roads Policing Unit spotted a taxi van that...
View ArticleStanford-le-Hope: Man in court over firearms and shoplifting offences
A MAN has appeared in court charged with shoplifting items worth more than £1,700 as well as two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and two firearms offences. Officers were hunting for a man who...
View ArticlePFCC announces further £1.6m investment to drive down anti-social behaviour...
THE Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex has announced £1.6m of new funding this year to drive down anti-social behaviour in 15 targeted hotspot areas of Essex. The funding will build on the...
View ArticleDetails of Thurrock Council officers carrying out surveillance operations on...
THURROCK Council officers carried out covert surveillance operations on unsuspecting shop keepers, it has emerged reports the Local Democracy Reporter. The council used powers under the Regulation of...
View ArticleYoung children added to malicious WhatsApp groups
CHILDREN as young as nine have been added to malicious WhatsApp groups promoting self-harm, sexual violence and racism, a BBC investigation has found. Thousands of parents with children at schools...
View ArticleMan jailed for seven years following armed robbery in Corringham
A MAN has been jailed for more than seven years after arming himself and threatening a family in their home Belay Zeine entered the home, in Corringham, through the back door at about 10am on April 6...
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