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Police Community Support Officers offer a warm welcome at TOAST youth club

Police Community Support Officers Colin Balch and Karen Capey will be taking part in a new Exmouth youth club initiative on Tuesday 23 January.

Called ‘TOAST’, the sessions run on a Tuesday and Thursday from 3.30pm to 5.30pm at Open Door community centre in Church Street, Exmouth and are for secondary school and college age students.

PCSO Karen, who works in Budleigh...

Police forces in the South West record a 45% rise in online child sex crimes

Police forces in the South West logged 487 online child sex offences during 2019/20, a 45% rise from the previous year’s figure of 334.*

Data obtained by the NSPCC reveals 10,391 crimes were recorded by all 46 forces across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands for 2019/20 – this is the first time the figure has passed the 10,000 mark.

Nationally, the...

Police launch The Good Consent Guide

Devon and Cornwall Police is promoting a new campaign around sexual consent, which aims to educate and inform young people around what can sometimes be a confusing issue.

The campaign, which targets 16 to 21 year olds, also promotes the message that there are #noblurredlines – sex without consent is rape.

Young people may feel pressured into having sex when they don’t want to...

CCTV appeal following sexual assaults on Plymouth to Penzance train

British Transport Police would like to speak to the man in this CCTV image after a woman and a teenage girl were sexually assaulted on a train in Cornwall – do you know him?

The two separate assaults took place on the 12.39pm Plymouth to Penzance train on Friday, 20 November.

A man asked to sit next to a 16-year-old girl, who he then went on to touch inappropriately. After the...

Police sergeant sacked for having sex in public whilst on duty

On Tuesday 17 February 2015 an internal misconduct hearing was held in respect of a serving police sergeant.

A member of the public had made a complaint that the sergeant had been seen engaging in sexual activity with another, in a public place whilst on duty.

The sergeant admitted the allegation and that his behaviour amounted to gross misconduct.

The sergeant was...

Guide to contraception for people with learning disabilities

A new easy read guide to methods of contraception and information on local Sexual Health Services has been created for people who have a learning disability.

The guide has been developed for those working with people who have a learning disability to help initial discussions before referring on to a specialist service for further advice.

The information is presented in...