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1. New partnership helps police protect victims targeted by fraudsters in gift card scams

   Avon and Somerset Police have identified and supported a number of fraud victims thanks to a new partnership with supermarkets designed to help prevent scams. Fraud Protect Officers launched the…

2. Taking a stand against drug dealing to make east Bristol streets safer 

   Neighbourhood policing teams in east Bristol made multiple arrests in early September for offences related to drug crime.  These arrests follow an increase in high-visibility patrols in the area to…

3. Increased police presence in Bristol to tackle unlicensed music events

   There will be an increased and highly-visible policing presence in and around Bristol city centre today with officers taking proportionate action in response to unlicensed music events, open drug use,…

4. Updated statement on response to major incident after explosion at property

   The following statement has been read to the press by Superintendent Matt Ebbs: At about 6.17am, we received a call to attend a domestic-related incident at a residential address in Sterncourt Road.   Officers were sent to the…

5. Parents of Oliver Price thank ‘amazing’ community after A396 collision

   Please find a statement from the parents of Oliver Price, who sadly died after the coach collision on the A396 on Exmoor earlier this month: Lucy and Matthew said: “As…

6. Ten arrests in North Somerset towns during shoplifting and drugs crackdown 

   A local operation targeting shoplifting and drug supply resulted in 10 arrests in Portishead, Weston-super-Mare, Cleeve and Nailsea in the space of five days.  As part of ongoing efforts to…

7. Peer pressure, loyalty and safer choices: Police launch new knife crime film

   Avon and Somerset Police is marking a national week of action to tackle knife crime (18–24 May) with the launch of a powerful new film produced for secondary schoolchildren.  The 15-minute short film was commissioned for Blunt Truth, the police’s long-running knife crime prevention programme in…

8. Man jailed for nine years for fatal collision in Taunton

   A speeding van driver has been jailed after being convicted of causing a fatal collision while over the limit for alcohol and drugs. Michael Atkinson, who was already disqualified from…

9. Alert over indecent exposure incidents

   We’re issuing an alert after a report of a man exposing himself to a teenage girl in Thornbury. It happened on a footpath off St Davids Road at around 5pm…

10. Trio in court after teenager injured at Cribbs Causeway earlier this week

    Three 16-year-old boys have appeared before magistrates after a boy aged 15 was injured in South Gloucestershire on Monday 26 May. The teenagers, who cannot be named for legal reasons,…