A warrant executed by officers from the Bournemouth East Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) has led to a man being jailed for drug dealing offences.Klodian Gjoci, aged 36 and of Bournemouth, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court after pleading guilty to...
Release date: 01/05/2025
A tireless pursuit of a man involved in a conspiracy to supply illegal drugs has seen him sentenced at court more than 13 years later. Richard Ronald Hawksworth, aged 41 and of Longbridge Deverill in Wiltshire, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Wedne...
Release date: 29/04/2025
Four warrants have been executed by officers in Sherborne after information was received in relation to suspected drug dealing. On the morning of Thursday 13 March 2025, officers simultaneously entered addresses in Amor's Drove and Lenthay Road and conduc...
Release date: 14/03/2025
Dorset Police has joined colleagues from across the South West in a major crackdown on suspected large-scale cannabis cultivation and other drug supply networks. The latest phase of Operation Scorpion saw more than 30 warrants executed across the region, ...
Release date: 07/03/2025
Local neighbourhood policing officers seized suspected drugs following a warrant in Sherborne. On Friday 29 November 2024 officers conducted a warrant under section eight of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act at an address in Amors Drove. It follo...
Release date: 13/12/2024
More than 90 people were arrested and £40,000 cash seized during a week of activity across the South West targeting county lines and child criminal exploitation. Last week, the five South West forces joined together for the tenth iteration of Operation Sc...
Release date: 06/12/2024
Police services across the South West - Avon and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, together with the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) - joined forces in a coordinated effort to combat drug-related crime...
Release date: 10/10/2024
Officers from the local neighbourhood policing team located suspected cannabis at an address near Bridport. Following information received, officers from Bridport Neighbourhood Policing Team attended an address in Bothenhampton at around 10am on Thursday ...
Release date: 30/09/2024
A man has been charged with drug supply offences after intelligence led to an arrest in Bournemouth. After receiving information, officers carrying out enquiries into an alleged county lines drug network stopped a man outside an address in Richmond Hill o...
Release date: 16/09/2024
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