Residents of South Gloucestershire will be even safer as a result of the opening of an extended CCTV service covering the district. An official opening on 29 September marks the completion of an 18 month project to provide state-of-the-art CCTV equipment across South Gloucestershire. Brand new equipment has been installed in key locations including Kingswood, Staple Hill, Chipping Sodbury, Hanham,
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Police are appealing for information after thieves broke into a storage unit at an infants’ school in Yate, stole a scooter and scrawled offensive graffiti on a play house. It happened at Broadway County Infants School over the weekend of September 19-20 2009. The burglary caused about £150 of damage to the storage unit to steal the red push-along scooter
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The Chipping Sodbury Neighbourhood Team is saying ‘on your bike’ to car thieves. Neigbourhood PCs and Police Community Support Officers will be patrolling Chipping Sodbury, Yate and villages in the surrounding area on bicycles for two weeks. Neighbourhood Sergeant Adrian Fallows said: “The team will be out on high-visibility cycle patrols as part of our campaign to prevent a seasonal
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Police are appealing for witnesses to a man acting indecently in public in Yate. They want to talk to anyone who may have seen a man in a white van parked near the Tesco Express in Station Road. Although a 42 year old man has been arrested and charged with two counts of indecency, police still want to talk to
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South Gloucestershire police have arrested three people for burglary acting on information from the public. On the afternoon of Sunday September 13, 2009, two 15-year-old boys were arrested in Stoke Gifford by police who responded to a call about youths congregating in a lane. Officers arrived to find someone had got into a house using a ladder from the garden
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Neighbourhood Police and Trading Standards officers carrying out checks on underage alcohol sales in the Chipping Sodbury, Frampton Cotterell and Yate areas were disappointed that five out of seven off-licences sold alcohol to under-18s. On Friday September 04 2009 police teamed up with South Gloucestershire Trading Standards officers for the operation, aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour and alcohol-related offences. With
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South Gloucestershire police have seized suspected cannabis with an estimated street value of more than £300,000 in an operation in Wick. Officers from the district’s Proactive Team acted on information from the community to plan the operation under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Police and Crime Scene Investigation officers went to a rented house in an isolated area on Tuesday
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South Gloucestershire Police arrested five men after a reported burglary at Little Stoke Youth Club on Sunday September 06 2009. Officers made the arrest the same night as the reported break-in after and recovered a cash till, cash and hi-fi system believed to have been stolen from the centre. Three men aged 17, a 20-year-old and a 28-year-old have been
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Police are appealing for information following the theft of diesel from garage premises in Alveston, South Gloucestershire, overnight on Tuesday 1st September 2009, The incident occurred between 9pm and 7am the following day, when a large quantity of diesel was removed from the storage tanks at Berkley Vale Motors in Thornbury Road. It is believed that a large lorry or
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South Gloucestershire police will be joining the festivities at the South Gloucestershire County Show over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The show is being held at Old Down between Saturday August 29 and Monday August 31 2009. Police, Police Community Support Officers and Special Constables will have a crime prevention display at the event. As well as being around during
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