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Operation Treacher focused on road safety across Thames Valley
Officers from Thames Valley Police deployed unmarked video bikes funded by the Police and Crime Commissioner and partially funded by National Highways.
Who’s charged with improving the CPS?
The recent comments by Sir Mark Rowley about the Crown Prosecution Service have sparked a row between the CPS and the Met, but beneath the name calling there is a fundamental problem with our justice system which needs to be resolved.
Police and Crime Commissioner appeals unduly lenient sentence
Matthew Barber, Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley, has today (22/5) written to the Attorney General requesting that the Court of Appeal look again at the sentencing of an attacker who stabbed a 15 year old boy in High Wycombe.
Force statistics show nearly 1m contacts from the public
New statistics show Thames Valley Police received nearly one million contacts from the public, attended 170,000 incidents, and made 31,000 arrests, in a single year – with officers driving more than 13 million miles in the process.
PCC welcomes Minister of State for Justice to Thames Valley
The visit focused on work to support victims across the criminal justice process from investigations, outcomes and support services with attendance from Thames Valley’s Police’s Rape and Sexual Offences Team and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Victims First Service.
Funding aimed at reducing domestic abuse and stalking
Matthew Barber has welcomed over £2.8m of Home Office funding to support the delivery of two projects which aim to reduce domestic abuse and stalking.