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A unique chance to share your views on policing in Dorset

14 October 2019
Dorset Police has launched ‘Your Dorset. Your Police. Your View.’ – a new way to make your views heard to help shape the county’s policing in the future. On 14 October 2019, Dorset Police launched an online priority setter to give the public the opportuni...

Update – missing Bournemouth man located
15 October 2019
Officers searching for missing Bournemouth man Matthew Lomas are pleased to confirm he has been located. Matthew, aged 29, was reported missing having last been seen at 12.15pm on Monday 16 September 2019 at an address on Almhurst Road. Following search...
Appeal following sexual assault on woman in Bournemouth
15 October 2019
Officers investigating a sexual assault on a woman in Bournemouth are appealing for vital witnesses to come forward. The incident occurred at around 2.15am on Sunday 13 October 2019 in Wellington Road, close to the junction with Milton Road. The vi...
CCTV appeal following robbery in Bournemouth
15 October 2019
Officers investigating a robbery in Bournemouth town centre are issuing CCTV images of four men they would like to speak to. At approximately 3.45pm on Friday 27 September 2019 a man was collecting conkers behind TSB bank on Old Christchurch Road when he...
CCTV appeal following theft of tyres in Bournemouth
15 October 2019
Officers investigating the theft of tyres in Bournemouth are issuing a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to. Between around 8.50pm and 9pm on Monday 30 September 2019 five tyres were stolen from Kwik Fit in Wallisdown Road. The total value of ...
Appeal for information in relation to alleged road safety offences near Sherborne
15 October 2019
Officers investigating reports of road safety offences near Sherborne are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward. At around 10.30am on Saturday 12 October 2019 Dorset Police received reports of horses and hounds from a...
Update – appeal to find missing man from Bournemouth
15 October 2019
Officers searching for missing Bournemouth man Robert Bell are pleased to say he has been found safe and well. The 58-year-old was last seen at an address in Green Road on Tuesday 20 August 2019 and was reported missing on Thursday 29 August 2019 when he...
County lines drug dealer behind bars
14 October 2019
A county lines drug dealer whose supply operation was found in a Bournemouth hotel has been jailed for three years and nine months. Andre Steve McRonna, 25 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday 11 October 2019 after be...
Man sentenced for destroying a bat roost in Shaftesbury
14 October 2019
A man who admitted destroying a roost for a protected species of bat has been ordered by a court to pay more than £7,000. Iain Russell Turner, aged 50 and of The Street in Motcombe, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court for sentencing on Friday 11 Oc...
CCTV appeal following assault in Bournemouth
14 October 2019
Officers investigating an assault in Bournemouth are issuing a CCTV image of the suspect. Enquiries have been ongoing into the assault that occurred at the Sovereign Centre in Boscombe on Friday 26 July 2019 and officers have now obtained CCTV footage of...
Drug dealer ordered to hand over more than £20,000
11 October 2019
Officers have secured orders against a man caught dealing drugs in Dorset that will force him to pay more than £20,000. Brandon Christopher Keane, aged 21 and of Green Road, Poole, was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday 12 July 2019 at Bour...