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Find out more about our demand with 12-hour Tweetathon

24 November 2020
Dorset Police will be sharing live real-time updates of calls to service and enquiries received by the Force during a 12-hour Tweetathon.The event will run from 2pm on Friday 27 November 2020 and will highlight the significant and varied demand the Force ...

Public appeal in search for missing Bournemouth man
28 November 2020
Officers are appealing for help from the public as they carry out searches to locate a missing Bournemouth man. At 9.35pm on Friday 27 November 2020 Dorset Police received a report raising concern for the welfare of 25-year-old Samual Webb, who had last ...
Man jailed for raping girl on Portland
27 November 2020
A man who raped an 11-year-old girl on Portland has been jailed for seven years. James Connell Loveman, aged 23 and of Portland, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday 27 November 2020 to be sentenced for offences of rape and assault by penetratio...
Renewed appeal in relation to fatal road traffic collision in Weymouth
27 November 2020
Officers continuing to investigate a fatal road traffic collision in Weymouth are renewing their appeal for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward. Dorset Police was called at 9.41am on Monday 16 November 2020 to reports of a road traff...
Appeal for witnesses following attempted burglary in Corfe Mullen
27 November 2020
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward following an attempted burglary in Corfe Mullen. Sometime between 7.50am and 11.30am on Wednesday 25 November 2020 a window of a property was smashed on Highfield Road. The i...
Appeal to locate tipper truck stolen from Langton Matravers
27 November 2020
Officers investigating the theft of a tipper truck from Langton Matravers are appealing for help from the public. Sometime between 4.20pm on Wednesday 11 November and 8.30am on Thursday 12 November 2020 a white Ford Transit Tipper truck with the registra...
CCTV appeal following reported shoplifting offence in Bournemouth
27 November 2020
Officers investigating a reported shoplifting offence in Bournemouth are issuing a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to. At 9.55pm on Monday 26 October 2020 a man entered Central Stores on Seamoor Road in the Westbourne area, selected six bott...
Public appeal to locate man wanted in connection with a reported robbery in Bournemouth
27 November 2020
Officers are appealing for help from the public to locate a man wanted in connection with a reported robbery in Bournemouth. Adam Neale Shilton, 31 and of no fixed abode, is wanted in connection with an alleged robbery that occurred on Queens Road on Sun...
Witness appeal following fail-to-stop collision in Poole
27 November 2020
Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward after an elderly woman was injured following a fail-to-stop collision in Poole. At 5.30pm on Friday 20 November 2020 the victim, a local woman aged in her 70s, was walking outside Daniels Fish and Chip...
Reported dog stolen from West Parley – investigation update
26 November 2020
Officers investigating reports a dog was stolen from West Parley say no further police action will be taken against two men arrested as part of the investigation. On the morning of Friday 18 September 2020 the dog’s owner was cutting the grass at a...
Missing man from Weymouth located
26 November 2020
Officers searching for a man who went missing in Weymouth are pleased to confirm he has been found safe and well. Kenneth Santi, 33, left an address in the town at around 8.40pm on Wednesday 25 November 2020 and was believed to have walked toward the dir...