A robust new approach to tackling retail crime in the Thames Valley will be unveiled by Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber, today.

Funding for an additional 150 police officers across the force, including neighbourhood officers; priority crime teams to tackle burglaries, theft and shoplifting; and an increase in the Rural Crime Taskforce and more…

Earlier this month the Thames Valley CCTV Partnership went live, with the first control room in Milton Keynes. Building on the previous partnerships between local authorities and the police the vision of the new system being championed by Police & Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber is to have a sustainable CCTV system to detect and deter crime and keep the public safe. Already the increase in CCTV operators has seen the police able to intervene in serious crimes as they are being committed.

£200k available to community groups - Matthew Barber, Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), has opened the first application round of the Community Fund for 2024

Ahead of a government announcement on modernising spiking laws this week, on Friday, 15 December, Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Barber, and Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Jason Hogg, welcomed Home Secretary, the Rt Hon James Cleverly MP, and Laura Farris MP, Minister for Victims and Safeguarding, to Windsor to discuss the work Thames Valley Police is doing to tackle violence against women and girls

Thames Valley Police is furthering its commitment to tackling rural crime and making the area a hostile place for countryside offenders.

The first rural crime strategy has been produced, which sets out the plan for reducing offending, improving co-operation and bringing offenders to justice up to 2026.