HARLOW residents can voice their priorities to help police and local authorities tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in different communities. The annual Community Safety Survey by Safer Essex, on behalf of the county’s 14 Community Safety Partnerships, asks a range of questions to help focus multi-agency efforts…

Update: Essex Police ” We are pleased to confirm that 13-year-old Lucien Pace has been found”.  ============= ESSEX Police are looking for 13-year-old Lucien Pace who is missing from Harlow. The teenager is described as slim, 5ft 2ins tall, with dark brown hair worn in…

ESSEX Police are working to find Euron Hoxa who is missing in Harlow. The 17-year-old is 5ft 6ins and has short, dark brown hair with braids. A spokesperson said: “We believe he will be wearing black jogging bottoms, a black jumper and black durag-style hat.…

DETECTIVES investigating the knifepoint robbery of a teenage boy in Harlow have secured a conviction against the culprit. On Wednesday 8 May this year, a 15-year-old boy was robbed in a pedestrian underpass in Netteswell Orchard, Harlow. He was approached by 19-year-old Ellis Brown, who…

AS you may know, we often go to the Essex Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner’s website to look at the crime statistics for Harlow and the rest of Essex. With a new Labour government and a new Home Secretary in Yvette Cooper, there will be…

A FORMER Essex Police officer would have been dismissed had she not already resigned after it was proven that she committed gross misconduct by taking drugs and failing to act on knowledge of her partner’s drug dealing. An investigation by our Professional Standards Department found…

Update: The police are pleased to confirm that 14-year-old Hughie Robertson has been found.  ESSEX Police is appealing for the public’s help to find 14-year-old Hughie Robertson. Hughie hasn’t been seen since travelling to Harlow on 12 July. He is described as a white boy,…

POLICE Officers dedicated to policing Euro 2024 in Essex responded to a number of incidents across the county last night. Although the vast majority were minor disturbances, we dealt with one incident of a domestic nature and a disturbance outside one licensed premises. We were…

NACRO responds to emergency measures to ease overcrowding in prisons Nacro is a social justice charity. Established in 1966 from the previous National Association of Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Societies, it became the largest criminal justice-related charity in England. Nacro responds to the Government announcement to ease…

THE streets of Essex are safer today for women and girls after a dangerous sexual predator, who plotted to kidnap, rape and murder a television presenter, was handed a life-sentence and ordered to serve a minimum of 16 years in prison. Following a robust investigation…

ESSEX Police is appealing for the public’s help to locate 42-year-old Alan Jones, who is wanted for failure to appear in court and breach of police bail. Jones is described as a white man, around 6ft tall with short brown hair. He has links across…

COMMERCIAL Vehicle Unit tackles road safety in an operation that saw 122 drivers reported for a variety of offences. As part of Operation Tramline, Essex Police’s Commercial Vehicle Unit (CVU) used a supercab to identify unsafe and distracting driver behaviour on the major routes across…

A HOSPITAL contractor who stole laptops from Princess Alexandra Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic has been jailed for 15 months. Francisco Maya, a 37-year-old of Dagenham Road in Dagenham, was working at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow during May and June 2020, when several…

1000 hrs: Statement from East of England Ambulance Service “We were called at 2.25pm on Tuesday 9 July to a road traffic collision involving a motorbike on the A414 near Harlow. Two ambulances, an ambulance officer vehicle and the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance were…