| A ‘Special’ Weekend – tackling road safety |
Volunteer police officers, or ‘Specials’ as they’re known, recently took part in a weekend of road safety activity to showcase their work. |
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| CCTV KEEPING CAMBRIDGE SAFE |
CCTV operators in Cambridge have participated in more than 10,000 arrests and called police nearly 30,000 times since the camera system was launched in 1997. The award winning team have proved themselves a vital tool in crime prevention and detection. |
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| PETR RELISHES PC ROLE |
IN 2006 Petr Torak became a PCSO in Peterborough so he could give something back to the country that had granted him refugee status and saved him and his parents from persecution in his native Czech Republic. |
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| Tracing the steps of a criminal |
The gritty subject matter, grisly murders and charismatic characters of the TV show have made CSI a household name. |
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| THE ART OF THE INTERVIEWING |
IT could be a scene from any number of TV dramas and Hollywood blockbusters - tough cops extracting a confession by any means from a suspect. |
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| FATAL COLLISION INVESTIGATIONS |
To most people the aftermath of a fatal road collision would present a bewildering scene of mangled vehicles, scattered debris and confusion.
To a roads policing officer it is a crime scene, littered with potential clues and evidence. |
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| SAFER SCHOOLS |
AT the start of the new school term, Stanground College became the latest Peterborough secondary school to get its own dedicated police officer as part of the Safer Schools Partnership. |
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| PENSIONS ARE NOT JUST FOR PEOPLE |
PENSIONS are not just for people. Cambridgeshire Constabulary now rewards the years of hard work and loyalty by police dogs by financing their retirement and looking after their health needs in their twilight years. |
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| DETECTIVE SCOOPS TOP AWARD |
Cambridgeshire detective Cheryl Pinner recently received a national policing award for her contribution to family liaison work since 2000. It was recognition of her work in a challenging area that is constantly proving its importance to modern policing. |
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| HRH THE PRINCESS ROYAL OPENS NEW OFFICE FOR VICTIMS’ CHARITY |
HRH the Princess Royal opened a new Victim Support office at Hampton Police Station, Peterborough on Thursday July 16. |
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| PARKSIDE POLICE STATION OPEN DAY |
Police dogs and crime scene investigators were among the attractions which entertained 1,500 people at Parkside Police Station open day on Sunday July 20. See the photos from the event. |
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| NEIGHBOURHOOD INTERVENTION TEAM (NIT) |
A NEW policing team has been formed in Peterborough that is tackling the issues causing most concern for residents. It can be deployed at short notice and has already had some excellent results. Neil Franklin reports. |
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| SPECIALIST RAPE OFFICERS |
THE hours and days after a serious sex offence are often a living nightmare for a victim. |
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| HONOUR BASED VIOLENCE - A YEAR ON |
A YOUNG woman left fearing for her life in Pakistan is just one Cambridgeshire victim saved since the introduction of an honour based violence hotline last year (2008). |
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| A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A STREET LIFE OFFICER |
FIRM and fair is how street life officer PC Christian Dicks deals with Cambridge's homeless. |
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| PROLIFIC AND PRIORITY OFFENDERS |
HALF of all crime is caused by 10 per cent of offenders. Meet the police trio whose job it is to keep these 'prolific and priority offenders' on the straight and narrow. |
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| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FEATURE |
FOR most of us Valentine's Day is the day we receive a surprise card or gift from a loved one or secret admirer. But for many people in Cambridgeshire it is just another day living in the shadow of domestic abuse. |
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| SUDDEN DEATHS |
Last year, more than 1200 sudden death incidents were reported to Cambridgeshire police's force control room. |
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| ARE YOU FIT ENOUGH? |
BY its nature, police work can be physically demanding. For this reason, every new recruit must take the same standard fitness test. Neil Franklin looks at what it entails and what it takes to pass. |
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| STAYING SAFE ON OUR ROADS |
POLICE are releasing a film detailing how to drive safely on the A1307 in Cambridgeshire.
The film offers driving advice to those using the road. |
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| DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? |
DEALING with the first call following a fatal collision, or picking up the phone to hear a suicidal person asking for help is all in a day's work for a control room operator. |
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| THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE BIG CAT DIARY |
A Cambridgeshire wildlife officer is on the trail of reported big cats living in our countryside. |
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| HELICOPTER UNDERWATER ESCAPE TRAINING |
IMAGINE being strapped in a helicopter carcass in a darkened room and dunked upside down in water. That's one of the necessary tests to be a successful police air observer. |
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| THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY LIAISON OFFICER |
FAMILY liaison officers (FLOs) are now involved in almost every high-profile police investigation and most people would have heard mention of them in news reports. |
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| NEW DOGS AND HANDLERS 'PASS OUT' AFTER TRAINING |
POLICE dog Flint has what his handler calls "42 sparkly white teeth". And he is trained to use them. |
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