A police officer sacked for tweeting that police bosses were ‘lower than slime’ has denied any connection to the account responsible.
Tony Ryan, 33, a was dismissed from Avon and Somerset Police for gross misconduct last week (8 April) after a disciplinary panel decided that he was the author of the @TheBritishCop twitter account, which had tweeted dergotory remarks about Avon and Somerset police bosses.
However Mr Ryan has vigorously denied any connection to the account and that many of the tweets posted by @TheBritishCop had been 'geotagged' in places he had never been,...
A Royal Navy bomb disposal team were called to Bonhams Auctioneers in Southernhay yesterday afternoon after a hand grenade was found in items handed in for appraisal.
Staff discovered the grenade, at around a 2:45pm on Monday (14 April), while searching through items passed to the auctioneers via a probate sale.
The grenade appeared to be live so staff locked the grenade in the safe and evacuated the premises and called police at Heavitree station.
Police set -up a cordon in the area near the Cathedral and called for support from Royal Navy bomb disposal, who...
The A30 at Exeter has reopened following a serious road traffic collision earlier today. Emergency services were called at 7.35am to a collision between a lorry and a JCB digger on the eastbound carriageway at Alphington. The lorry driver was trapped in his vehicle and had to be released by the fire service. He was airlifted to Derriford Hospital by air ambulance while the JCB driver was treated at the RD&E for a neck injury.
Thankfully their injuries were less severe than initally thought and both drivers ave now been released from hospital. The eastbound carriageway was...
Police have launched a public appeal after an 86-year-old woman was injured in a mugging near St Thomas Pleasure Ground in Exeter on Sunday morning.
The woman suffered arm and shoulder injuries and was treated at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. She was also very shaken by the incident.
The incident took place sometime between 8:00am and 9:00am on Sunday (13 April) when a man stole the elderly vicitm’s handbag on a footpath running between the St Thomas pleasure ground and Buller road.
The male offender is described as white, 6ft tall of a medium build and...
Devon and Cornwall Police Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer has this week met Pope Francis in the Vatican to raise awareness of human trafficking and slavery.
Chief Constable Sawyer joined fellow police leaders from around the world as well as Home Secretary Theresa May at the conference hosted by Pope Francis in the Vatican.
Mr Sawyer holds the National Association of Chief Police Officers Lead for Migration and Related Matters and took part in the two day conference on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The summit was organised by the bishops' conference of England and Wales...
Police in Devon have seen a significant rise in the reporting of Domestic violence offences in new figures announced today.
The rise in domestic violence reports, of 22.8% or 886 more reports on the previous year, follows from an effort by officers to encourage victims of domestic violence to report abuse.
While potentially a sign that this effort has been successful police have cautioned that, while these figures are only one indication of how the Force is doing and overall figures rarely show the true picture.
Devon commander, Chief Superintendent Paul Davies,...
Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg has ‘listened to the voices of our communities’ to set new priorities for Devon and Cornwall Police.
In his revised Police and Crime Plan, published today (3 April), Mr Hogg sets out six priorities. These focus the efforts of the commissioner, the police and other organisations onto cutting crime, keeping people safe and encouraging people to work together to make communities stronger and safer.
The priorities are:
• Cutting crime, keeping Devon and Cornwall safe; • Reducing the harm caused by alcohol related crime; •...
New Investigations into allegations of child abuse by Jimmy Savile include an investigation into an Exeter Children’s home that closed in 1986. The historic investigation into Collette Lodge in Exeter comes as new information from the Metropolitan Police opens 21 new investigations into children’s homes and schools across England and Wales. Investigators from Operation Yewtree have handed allegations dating back to the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to the Department for Education (DfE).
In a written statement Education Secretary Michael Gove said: "This information was uncovered as part...
Police in Exeter have issued an appeal to the public in a bid to trace and identify a man who was seen in a distressed state in the city. Officers attended Streatham Drive at around 3.30pm yesterday, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 after receiving a report regarding a man who was in tears at the fishpond in the university grounds. The man in question was not wearing any shoes and was noticed to have a mark around his neck. Officers have not been able to trace or identify the man and are concerned for his welfare. He is described as being in his 20s, around 5ft 10in tall, of medium to thin build,...
