Man Arrested Following Incident in Regent Street, Wellington
A man has been arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill following an incident in Wellington, Telford. At approximately 7.40pm yesterday (Friday 4 July) West Mercia Police were called to Regent...
View ArticleWitness Appeal For Street Robbery In Telford
Police are seeking witnesses after a street robbery in Telford on Friday 4 July. The incident happened at approximately 8.45pm on Church Parade. A 48 year-old man was followed by two men and three...
View ArticleAppeal for Witnesses After Elderly Couple Assaulted in Telford
West Mercia Police are appealing for witnesses after an elderly couple were assaulted in Telford. The incident happened at 3.15pm on Thursday 19th June, at Roden Nurseries on Roden Lane. The suspect...
View ArticlePolice Appeal for Witnesses Following Fatal Collision in Shropshire
West Mercia Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the Adderley Road in Spoonley, Market Drayton. The collision happened at 2.15pm yesterday (Monday 7 July) and involved a...
View ArticleWere you on holiday in Crete on June 18th and if so did you visit the Souda...
Were you on holiday in Crete on June 18thand if so did you visit the Souda Bay Cemetery, to the east of Chania? A visitor’s book shows that missing Denbigh man Robert Arthur Jones visited the World War...
View ArticleElderly Woman Robbed In Telford
Police are appealing for witnesses after an elderly woman was robbed in Telford on Monday 7 July. The robbery happened at around 5.30pm at the back of the community hall, near to Meadcroft in the area...
View ArticleUpdated: Elderly Woman Robbed In Telford
Police are appealing for witnesses after an elderly woman was robbed in Telford on Monday 7 July. The robbery happened at around 5.30pm at the back of the community hall, near to Meadcroft in the area...
View ArticlePolice Support Dementia Action Alliance By Making More "Dementia Friends"
Dementia Awareness Week was recently launched nationally and to demonstrate their support, Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police have signed up to the Dementia Action Alliance (DAA). The DAA is a...
View ArticleSecurity Alert Over Bogus Council Tax Calls
West Mercia Police are reminding Worcestershire residents never to disclose details about their security, bank accounts or other personal information to ‘cold callers' over the phone. The alert comes...
View ArticleAppeal for information - Fail to Return
Gwent Police is appealing for information to help locate 34 year-old Scott Johnson who failed to return to HMP Prescoed yesterday, Tuesday 8th July, having been on day release. Johnson was convicted of...
View ArticleRenewed appeal to trace missing woman
York police have issued a fresh appeal for the public’s help to trace a woman who has been reported missing. Lisa Savage, aged 38, has not be seen since being spotted in Askham Richard at around 10pm...
View ArticleMen Convicted Of ATM Thefts And Attempted Thefts Across The Northwest And...
Merseyside Police can confirm that two men have today (Thursday, 10 July) been convicted following a Crown Court trial for a series of thefts/attempt thefts from cash machines across the North West and...
View ArticlePublic Urged To Look Out For Elderly Family And Friends After Increase In Scams
West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police are urging the public to look out for their elderly and vulnerable family, friends and neighbours following an increase in distraction burglaries and bank...
View ArticleWest Mercia Police Takes Part In National Online Child Abuse Operation
West Mercia Police can confirm it has arrested 17 suspects as part of a national operation that has seen 660 people detained and questioned about sharing indecent images of children online. The UK-wide...
View ArticleWater Safety Warning As Summer Holidays Begin
The start of the school holidays and the warmer summer weather have prompted a warning from West Mercia Police about the dangers of open water. While swimmers are the main focus following several high...
View ArticleShrewsbury control room to remain open until 2017
West Mercia Police have today 17 July 2014 announced that the control room at Battlefield in Shrewsbury scheduled to close in March 2015 as part of cost saving plans will now remain open until 2017....
View ArticleSuspect Charged With Stabbing In Telford
Suspect Charged With Stabbing In Telford. A 37 year old man has been arrested and charged with Grevious Bodily Harm, following an incident outside the Station Hotel on Station Road in Wellington,...
View ArticleWest Mercia Police Announce Sudden Death of Serving Officer
West Mercia Police is sad to announce the sudden and unexpected death of PC Duncan Jones. Duncan, 41, was a serving police officer in Worcester Police Station, where he worked as a response officer. He...
View ArticleCode of Ethics accepted as a code of practice by Parliament
The Code of Ethics, made available to the police service in April, was presented at Parliament by the College of Policing on 15 July 2014 and has now become a code of practice. The code makes clear the...
View ArticlePolice Appeal For Help To Find Missing Woman From Hollywood, Birmingham
West Mercia Police are appealing to the public for their help to locate a missing woman from Hollywood, Birmingham. Eve Cullen is 52 years old and has not been seen since Thursday 17th July 2014 when...
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