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Our officers arrest 41 for shop theft in a week
13:00 18/04/2025Essex officers arrested 41 and secured 103 charges for shop theft last week – with just three people accounting for more than half the charges
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Colchester: Man admits 34 shop thefts across the city
12:00 18/04/2025A Colchester man has pleaded guilty to committing 34 shop thefts in the city
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Marine patrols to help keep you safe on the water
15:35 17/04/2025Our marine officers will regularly patrol anti-social behaviour hotspots along the Essex coastline this spring and summer
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Colchester: Pair guilty of drug supply offences
13:00 15/04/2025Two men are guilty of supplying drugs in Colchester after officers discovered a dog bed containing a large supply of Class A and B drugs thrown from their balcony.
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Colchester: Arrest after city centre exposure
18:44 13/04/2025We’ve arrested a man after two women approached officers in Colchester city centre to report a man exposing himself.
Crimes
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This map uses data from local forces. The hotspots give only a loose idea of where crimes happened. Actual locations and details of crimes are kept anonymous.
Please note that not all crimes that occurred can be shown on the map.
133 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.
Known issues with forces' data are set out in the changelog on data.police.uk.