Crime

Birchwood student followed off bus by man who had been intimidating her as she made her way home from school on Tuesday.

Roger Hirst says he is well-positioned to win. Cllr Louise McKinlay, deputy leader of Essex County Council, also wants to be the Tory candidate.

They used a snow centre to simulate a night-time incident in extreme weather, with the mercury dipping as low as minus six degrees Celsius.

The closure of the front desk will allow police officers to continue patrolling the streets of Uttlesford

He becomes second in command to Chief Constable Andy Prophet, who joined the constabulary from Essex at the end of 2024.

Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Jonathan Ash-Edwards believes he has laid solid foundations in his first year in office.

Police later charged two Chelmsford men and a Braintree woman with theft from a shop and paramedics treated a woman who suffered a ‘medical episode’.

Oliver Gobey, who resigned as a police constable on the morning of his misconduct panel hearing, directed comments at people of Asian descent.

The victim, in her 40s, was verbally abused and then assaulted outside Costa Coffee in Saffron Walden on Sunday April 13.

PC Stuart Greaney, who has since resigned, arrived at the woman’s house in uniform 30 minutes before his shift was due to end.

The teenage cyclist died in hospital three days after the incident in Felsted on Tuesday April 22.

Former PC Alexander Simpson claimed he passed his test in 2017 and held a valid licence allowing him to drive automatic vehicles.

Incidents in the county remain low, but the campaign aims to raise awareness that carrying a knife is illegal.

Officers will target Castle Gardens and Sworder’s Field in Bishop’s Stortford and Bullfields and West Road parks in Sawbridgeworth.

Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Jonathan Ash-Edwards will quiz Chief Constable Andy Prophet in a meeting which is webcast live.

Intruders targeted four homes in Hadham Road, Bishop’s Park and Thorley Park, taking cars from two, but were thwarted at others by occupants waking up

The burglars used a tool to force open the front door, made a tidy search of the house and left with items including a set of vehicle keys.

Police appeal for public’s help to identify man after laptops, jewellery and money were stolen in a break-in in Warwick Road on Friday April 18.

Ervis Kastrati and Fatlum Dautaj, were among four men arrested in an operation by Hertfordshire police targeting organised county lines crime group.

A grey Volkswagen Golf and a blue Volkswagen Transporter van were taken in Saffron Walden between 11pm Friday and 9am Saturday (May 2-3).