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News & Blog

Check out our latest news and blogs to find out how we are working hard to improve community safety, reduce crime and hold the police to account.

Events

Find out all the latest event information, and learn when you can interact with the PCC and his team at shows, public meetings, community days and forums.

Newsletters

The Dorset Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner produce a quarterly newsletter explaining progress in making Dorset safer and feel safer through community initiatives.

Victim Care

Being a victim or witness of crime can be distressing and traumatic. This page is designed to provide you with help and support, relevant information and advice with links to other partner organisations that can assist you.

Restorative Justice

Restorative Justice (RJ) is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of victims, offenders and the involved community, as opposed to simply punishing the offender. RJ is victim focussed and lets victims tell offenders the real impact of their crime.

Custody Visiting

Independent Custody Visitors (ICVs) provide an independent check on the welfare of people who are detained in custody.

Newsletters

The Dorset Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner produce a quarterly newsletter explaining progress in making Dorset safer and feel safer through community initiatives.

Victim Care

Being a victim or witness of crime can be distressing and traumatic. This page is designed to provide you with help and support, relevant information and advice with links to other partner organisations that can assist you.

What we spend and how we spend it

On this page you can access financial information relating to our projected and actual income and expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audit.

Consultations

Your Voice in Policing!

Volunteering

The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner has opportunities for members of the public to volunteer their time and energy to support the PCC’s overall vision of making Dorset a better place for people to live, work and visit.

Surgeries

Your chance to speak directly to PCC Martyn Underhill one-to-one about policing or wider community safety issues.

Guest blog – how to avoid the summer holiday scammers

Dorset Police Cyber Protect Officer Chris Conroy returns to offer some much needed advice about staying safe when booking a last minute summer holiday.

New contract will build solid bridges between police and community

Whenever I go out to talk to members of the public about policing there is always one theme that crops up in people’s comments.

Consumption rooms could be part of solution to our drugs problem

As a serving police officer for 30 years, I saw first hand the devastation that drug use can cause.

Police Covenant must have mental health at its heart

Policing is a job like no other. The levels of physical, emotional and psychological stress which officers are expected to go through on a daily basis are extreme.

Report shines light on hidden world of rural domestic abuse

A new report has shone a worrying light on the problem of domestic abuse in rural areas.

GUEST BLOG – HOW TO STAY SAFE ON SOCIAL MEDIA (PART TWO)

Dorset Police Cyber Protect Officer Chris Conroy takes another look at how social media can be used against us – and what we can do to protect ourselves.

Guest blog - how mentoring ex offenders fills in the gaps

Volunteer Claire Spackman writes about her experiences mentoring former prisoners for the Poole-based Footprints Project.

Tweetathon paints a stark picture of policing demand

Last week’s Tweetathon painted a stark picture of the demands facing Dorset Police on a daily basis.

Let's praise our Neighbourhood Watch heroes

Anyone who thinks of Neighbourhood Watch members as cantankerous nosey neighbours twitching their net curtains should think again.

Guest blog – how to stay safe on social media (Part One)

In his latest guest blog, Dorset Police Cyber Protect Officer Chris Conroy looks into how social media can be used against us – and what we can do to protect ourselves.