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Superintendent Keith Perkin has been appointed the new Police lead for areas including Exeter, East Devon and Mid Devon. With responsibility for over 300 staff including police officers, civilians, police community support officers and Special Constables, he has a management team of one Chief Inspector, seven Inspectors and three Detective Inspectors to assist him. Having grown up in Cornwall, and now living in Devon’s capital city, Supt Perkin first began his career with Devon & Cornwall Police over twenty years ago as a Police Constable in Exeter.

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Four firefighters are attempting the challenging bike ride from John O Groats to Land's End over a period of nine days.

They plan to set off on 3 September and hope to raise money for the The Fire Fighters Charity and Motor Neurone Disease Research.

Taking part are Adam Mckee and James Davey from Middlemoor in Exeter, Lee Foreman from Taunton and Tom Statton from Crownhill in Plymouth.

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The first litter of puppies bred in-house by Devon and Cornwall Police will meet their new puppy walkers on Thursday 25 July.

A puppy walker takes a puppy to live with them for 12 to 18 months for socialising and early training, in preparation for the puppy entering its police training. Each puppy has undertaken a short series of tests to find out if they were suitable for police dog training and we are delighted to announce that all seven puppies have passed their suitability tests with flying colours. All seven puppies have now been named.

Canine Development Officer, Paul...

Devon and Cornwall Police has announced plans to re-develop its Middlemoor Headquarters, in partnership with food retailer Morrisons.