Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward following a serious collision near Dorchester. The incident occurred on Old Sherborne Road between Charlton Down and Buckland Newton at around 7pm on Tuesday 25 August 202...
Release date: 26/08/2026
Efforts by Weymouth and Portland Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) have seen a man jailed for breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO). The NPT had secured a five-year-long CBO for 44-year-old Nicholas Gardner following a number of incidents in Weymouth...
Release date: 25/08/2026
Detectives are continuing to investigate an alleged serious assault in Bournemouth and are appealing for witnesses to come forward. At approximately 4.15am on Sunday 16 August 2026 it is reported that a man sustained stab wounds following an assault by a ...
Release date: 25/08/2026
The latest mobile evidential breath test machine has been rolled out for use in Dorset improving how officers can catch drink drivers. The Lion Intoxilyzer 9000 measures the amount of alcohol found in a motorist using pulsed infrared technology on a breat...
Release date: 25/08/2026
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward after a bird was reportedly attempted to be killed using a catapult in Poole. At around 4.05pm on Monday 24 August 2026, it was reported that a group of young people were usin...
Release date: 25/08/2026
A pedestrian who was injured in a serious collision in Bournemouth has very sadly died. At around 5.30pm on Tuesday 11 August 2026 a collision occurred in Belle Vue Road involving a silver Honda Jazz and a pedestrian. The pedestrian – a man aged in his 80...
Release date: 25/08/2026
Officers investigating reports of outraging public decency in Poole are issuing an image of a man they would like to identify. It is reported that between 5pm and 6pm on Sunday 12 July 2026 a man was seen performing an indecent act in the Waterloo Road an...
Release date: 24/08/2026
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward after a fire was believed to have been started deliberately in Weymouth. The fire started at around 10.20am on Sunday 23 August 2026 near to B&M in Souter Way. It is repor...
Release date: 24/08/2026
Detectives have arrested a man in connection with a reported rape in Bournemouth. Dorset Police received a report at 12.16am on Thursday 20 August 2026 that a man had raped a woman aged in her 40s in the Boscombe area. The incident is reported to have occ...
Release date: 21/08/2026
A body has very sadly been found in the search for a man who went missing from Poole. Daniel, aged 31, was reported missing having last been seen at around midnight on Tuesday 18 August 2026. Officers have been carrying out extensive searches, with assist...
Release date: 21/08/2026
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