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Hampshire Constabulary can confirm that a police officer has died following a road traffic collision on Thomas Lewis Way, Swaythling. The police officer was on duty and riding an unmarked police motorcycle when he was in collision with a silver BMW outside the Shell petrol station at around 2pm. He was taken to Southampton...
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Police at Eastleigh are seeking information about two men who twice broke windows in a Fair Oak house. Large rocks were thrown through the windows of a house in Strawberry Mead on the late afternoon of Wednesday, February 27. The following night, just before 9pm, the front windows again were hit by large rocks,...
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Burglars who kicked in a door on Winchester road chandlers ford last Tuesday afternoon (February 19) left empty handed. This is the second burglary in the area within the last couple of days and Police say that people had been seen in the area door knocking shortly before the incident. Residents are asked...
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Police at Eastleigh are appealing for witnesses after a 58-year-old Chandlers Ford man was attacked and suffered serious eye and facial injuries. Between 10 and 10.30pm Wednesday, February 20, the man was walking home from Eastleigh train station. As he walked along Leigh Road, near the Co-op and Pirelli premises, a car pulled up...
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Police have issued an e-fit image of one of two men they need to identify in connection with the stabbing of a woman in West End on Saturday, January 12. The man is described as white, in his early twenties, slim, slightly muscular and about 5ft 9ins tall with cropped sandy-blond hair. He was...
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Detectives at Eastleigh are appealing for information following a suspected arson in block of flats. At about 7.30pm Monday, February 11, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service called police to a burning block of 15 flats in Ovington Road, Eastleigh. All but one of the flats had been vacated because of redevelopment plans. One flat...
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Hampshire Constabulary is welcoming the appointment of Andy Marsh as new chief constable. Mr Marsh, who is currently the force’s deputy chief constable, will commence his new position on Monday (February 4) replacing Alex Marshall, whose tenure as the force’s top officer ceases at midnight on Sunday (February 3). Mr Marshall will then...
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Eastleigh Police today released a photo of a man they would like to speak to after purse was stolen from a shopper. A purse containing nearly £100 and bus passes belonging to a woman with learning difficulties was taken from her handbag while she was shopping in the town’s poundland just before midday last...
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A group of lager louts hanging around the Archers Road/Beaulieu Road footbridge threatened a local man with a broken bottle and attempted to rob him on Saturday evening 8 December 2012. The incident happened between 8 and 9 pm when four males surrounded the forty year-old man as he approached the footbridge from...
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Police officers have already arrested 17 people – including one from the Eastleigh/Romsey district on suspicion of drink-driving just two days into Hampshire Constabulary’s ‘Smashed’ campaign. Between 12.01am on Saturday and 11.59pm on Sunday, 17 people, 13 men and 4 women between the ages of 18 to 64 were arrested on suspicion of driving...
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An independent investigation into how Hampshire Constabulary handled an emergency call from a vulnerable woman who was subsequently subjected to a sexual assault has concluded the force let her down Last February the woman made an early hours 999 call but abandoned it before it could be transferred to the control room. The...
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It is the knock at the door every parent dreads – a police officer there to tell you your child is dead. That’s exactly what happened to one Hampshire father in the early hours of November 13, 2011. His eldest daughter was on the A323 near Fleet when she lost control of her car...
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Think you’ve spotted a drink-driver? Save a life, text this number: 80999. That is the message from Hampshire Constabulary which is calling on members of the public to report suspected drink-drivers using the anonymous text service. The number which was launched last Christmas, will be used for this year’s Smashed Christmas drink-drive campaign which runs from...
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Eastleigh CID are appealing for sightings of a black sporty motorbike which has been seen at or near houses that have been burgled in Ashurst, West End, North Baddesley and Ampfield. The appeal comes after a burglary at Winchester Road, Ampfield on Saturday, November 24. Between 2 and 2.30pm, entry was forced to a...
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Police from Eastleigh and Hedge End raced to the scene of a break in at Ford Social club in the early hours of Friday morning and apprehended a suspect. At around 00.30hrs police on November 23 thieves in smashed their way through the roof of the social club using a sledge hammer setting of...
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