• Police charge a man after a quad bike was stolen in Belper

  By Lynn_Shepherd at 15:48 on 15/05/13

  

  Police have charged a man with stealing a quad bike from a house in Belper. Gavin Page, 30, of Ilkeston, appeared before magistrates in Derby on May 9th in connection with the theft. A man called police at about 3.15am on Wednesday, May 8th, because he looked out of the window at his Acorn Drive home and saw his quad bike being towed away by a motorbike. Officers searched the area and found the vehicles driving along the A6 at...

• Suspected stolen power tools recovered by police in Belper

  By Lynn_Shepherd at 09:37 on 09/05/13

  

  Police in Belper are asking residents who may have had tools stolen to contact them after a number of items have been recovered. More than twenty items were seized during a warrant on Chestnut Avenue, Belper, on Friday, April 19th. Although a number of items have been identified, police are trying to trace the owners of some of the tools, which include a large steamer, drills, saws and attachments. A 26 year old man and a 19 year...

• Crime falls in Derbyshire for the tenth consecutive year

  By Lynn_Shepherd at 21:24 on 10/04/13

  

  Crime has fallen for the tenth consecutive year in Derbyshire with the county seeing one of the biggest reductions in crime nationally. Derbyshire Constabulary has announced that in the year ending April 1, overall crime has reduced by 16.3 per cent from 61,483 incidents in 2011/2012 to 51,440 in 2012/2013 meaning there were more than 10,000 fewer victims this year compared to last. The force understands that when compared to other...

• Campaign to weed out cannabis farms across Derbyshire after 34 discovered already in 2013

  By Lynn_Shepherd at 21:15 on 10/04/13

  

  Police are urging the public to be on the lookout for telltale signs of cannabis farms as part of a campaign to weed out the drug. Derbyshire Constabulary has launched its campaign to find cannabis farms that could have been set up in properties across the county. These farms are used to grow large amounts of the class B drug, which is then cultivated and sold to dealers and drug users. As well as fuelling drug activity on your...

• Police appeal following attempted robbery at a Heage shop

  By Lynn_Shepherd at 09:28 on 04/04/13

  

  Derbyshire Police are appealing for information about an attempted robbery at a shop in Heage. At around 8pm on Easter Sunday, March 31st, a man entered Fourways Stores, Park Road, and approached the counter. The man punched the shop worker and attempted to get to the till. The victim then pushed the door at the edge of the counter closed and the offender fell over before running out of the shop. The victim, a 49 year old man,...

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