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BBC News
11-04-2025
- BBC News
More Devon and Cornwall officers on the beat thanks to funding
More police officers will be on the beat in Devon and Cornwall after a £4.7m grant from the Home grant meant 45 more police officers would be deployed into neighbourhood police teams, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly also means 55 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) will be recruited, as well as 10 special constable and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez said the funding was "fantastic news". Hernandez said increased policing was "proven to improve confidence and reduce crime".The funding forms parts of the government's Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee - which has made £200m available to police forces nationally in 2025/2026 to support the increase of neighbourhood officers in years to come. Assistant Chief Constable Glen Mayhew said neighbourhood policing was at the centre of how the force supported said: "We will ensure these 110 officers and staff respond to what our communities need and have been telling us. "They will be visible and accessible within our villages, towns and cities tackling antisocial behaviour and local crime."The neighbourhood policing grant is in addition to £1m funding from the Home Office to deliver hotspot policing in Devon and Cornwall for a second 2024-2025, the project delivered more than 22,000 hours of foot patrols by police and local authority street marshals, the OPCC said.
BBC News
07-02-2025
- BBC News
Kent: Woman arrested for taking citizen test for others
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of fraudulently taking UK citizenship tests for 12 legitimate applicants while in disguise, the Home Office has 42-year-old woman was arrested after investigators carried out a warrant at an address in Dartford, Kent, on Home Office said officers acted on knowledge that the woman was alleged to have completed the tests across multiple test centres in the UK, disguising herself and falsifying ID documents to avoid being Foster, the Home Office's criminal and financial investigation lead for London, said: "This individual went to extreme lengths, using wigs and disguises to impersonate others and cheat the immigration system." When searching the property, officers discovered a second woman who tried to hide under a bed and she was arrested on suspicion of entering the UK illegally, the Home Office false documents were also seized along with "a hoard" of luxury goods, including designer handbags, watches and shoes, that were presumed to have been bought through proceeds of crime, according to the Home Life in the UK test is a requirement as part of an application for British citizenship or settlement in the includes 24 questions aimed at proving the applicant has sufficient knowledge of British values, history and society. Both women remain in custody and the investigation continues, the Home Office says.
