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With 641 arrests for shop theft in Essex between January and May 2025, our neighbourhood policing teams are using criminal behaviour orders to try to divert the most prolific from their need to steal through the use of special court orders
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That’s from our Chief Constable as colleagues from the armed forces joined him to mark the 81st anniversary of D-Day and watch 33 new officers take their oaths.
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They passed out at a ceremony at Essex Police Headquarters in front of their friends and family.
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Four people have been arrested on suspicion of drug supply offences, as officers kept the county safe this weekend.
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Two men caught by officers from Braintree Neighbourhood Policing Team fleeing from the scene of a cannabis grow in Halstead have each been jailed for six months
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169 incidents of Crime occurred in Essex Police could not be mapped to a location and therefore are not on this map. Learn more about how data is managed on police.uk.
Location anonymisation is accurate to 2012 and 2022 population and housing developments.
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