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According to reports from Thames Valley Police, 1,816 bikes were stolen last year in Oxford’s Local Police Area, or approximately five cases per day. Accounting for unreported bike thefts, the number is likely even greater. The largest number of bicycle thefts occurred in Oxford Central (734 cases), followed by Oxford East (411 cases) and Cowley […]
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TW: sexual assault. Thames Valley Police have put out an appeal for witnesses to come forward following a rape incident in an alleyway on Turl Street. The appeal was also emailed to students of Lincoln College which is located on the street. The incident occurred around 03:20 to 03:40 on Saturday, 4th May. The victim, […]
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Image Credit: Peter Trimming (CC BY-SA 2.0) Yesterday, August 17th, police released details of an assault that took place on George Street earlier this month. A gang of 10 young people, all male, are said to have chased a 17-year old boy down George Street before violently assaulting him and taking his debit card. The […]
Continue ReadingIn a covert operation undertaken by Thames Valley Police on February 2nd and 3rd, nine out of twenty establishments failed to pass ‘child sexual exploitation tests’. As part of the operation officers visited guest houses and hotels in Bicester and Banbury, North Oxfordshire. A plainclothes officer and a fifteen-year-old girl visited the establishments and asked […]
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Two Oxford students were attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning in what has been described as a homophobic assault.
Continue ReadingA student has had their phone, headphones and money stolen by a man pretending to be a plain clothes police officer. The crime took place in North Oxford between 6th and 7th and Thames Valley Police are now investigating. The student was followed and approached by a man who then claimed to be a plain […]
Continue ReadingA don at Oxford University has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of Professor Steven Rawlings was found dead at his home
Continue ReadingThames Valley Police lead calls encouraging female students not to walk around Cowley area unaccompanied after spate of assaults
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