A potentially life-saving emergency bleed control kit has been installed outside Brook Way Activity Centre in Bradley Stoke, thanks to partnership working between Avon and Somerset Police, NHS England South West and HeartSafe. The installation marked the start of Operation Sceptre, a national week of action to raise awareness of operational activity to tackle, disrupt and prevent knife crime.
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Bradley Stoke councillors have voted to terminate a long-standing agreement that has seen the town council part-fund an additional part-time police officer on the local beat team. The decision was made after the police force requested a 16% increase in the town council’s contribution from April 2023, along with concerns over whether the council has been getting “value for money”.
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Councillors have expressed “significant concerns” regarding a requested 16 percent annual increase in the town council’s contribution towards the funding of an additional part-time police officer dedicated to Bradley Stoke. They are also unhappy at the “lack of visible police presence” in the town and the “withdrawal of police support for community events”.
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Avon and Somerset Police report that they arrested two men aged 18 and 21 in the early hours of Monday 27th June, in connection with a burglary at a home in Bradley Stoke. The news comes after a number of residents complained on the social networking site Twitter of being woken by a police helicopter hovering over their homes at
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A Bradley Stoke woman has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to the local police force. Sue Dauncey, Director of Legal Services for Avon and Somerset Police, has been appointed Member of the British Empire (MBE). Chief Constable Colin Port said: “I’m delighted that Sue’s hard work and commitment has been recognised in this way. She
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Bradley Stoke residents should find it easier to speak to a police officer in person following the official opening of a ‘beat post’ at the Willow Brook shopping centre earlier this month. The new office, accessed from the shopping mall via a short passage between the Santander bank agency and Reflections hairdressers, gives police a local base meaning that they
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Police are appealing for the public’s help to find 13-year-old Jade Evans. Jade has been missing from her home in Bradley Stoke since the early hours of today (Monday 13th December 2010). Her disappearance is said to be very out of character and officers are very concerned for her welfare. It is thought she may be in the Pilning or
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When are Avon and Somerset Constabulary going to realise that the ostrich approach is failing the town? It is reaching the stage where people are now fearing for the safety of their property and their own person if they are brave enough to walk the streets after dark. The published figures are an absolute joke as the meeting last month
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A Bradley Stoke man has been appointed Vice Chair of a group which advises South Gloucestershire Police on how they can best serve under-represented people. The Independent Advisory Group (IAG) includes representatives from a range of different sections of the community who can face prejudice because of their disability, age, ethnicity, faith or sexual orientation. Sachin Singhal (pictured above, centre),
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A student at Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School has been awarded a runners-up prize in a competition to design a Christmas card for Avon and Somerset Police. Elliot Howard’s design will now be used for the cards sent out on behalf of one of the force’s district commanders. Read more: Avon and Somerset Police
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