This afternoon, a sizable fire has started in Gravesend (June 26). A serious incident in Jubilee Crescent has prompted nine fire engines to respond...
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Ten people have been arrested by Kent Police following a disturbance in the Bradstone Road area of Folkestone at around 1am on Thursday 28 November 2019. Officers attended the scene and detained the men, aged between 24 and 50, on suspicion of drug...
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating a burglary where a cash machine was stolen in Northfleet. The incident happened at the Northfleet Food and Wine shop in the High Street, shortly before 12.15am on...
Investigators are appealing for information following a serious collision in Greenhithe, near Dartford. At around 10.15am on Wednesday 27 November 2019 a Volkswagen Transporter van travelling from the direction of Crossways Business Park collided...
Rebecca Carr (also known as Rebecca Simmonds) was 22yrs old when she went missing on 25 November 2002 after her grandparents dropped her off near Gillingham railway station. She is 5ft 8in, of slim build and had mousy brown long curly hair at the...
A woman has been cut free from car following crash near Canterbury Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a three-vehicle crash on the A28 near the Shalmsford Street junction in Chartham near Canterbury. Two fire engines attended and crews used...
There are long delays on the M20 in Kent this evening towards London after the road surfaced has failed at a number of locations between junction 9 Ashford and Junction 8 Maidstone South. Traffic officers from Highway England have put in a number of...
A cocaine dealer has received a prison sentence after he was arrested by officers in plain clothes in Maidstone. On 2 September 2019, the officers saw a suspected drug user walking towards a car parked on a service road off Palace Avenue. They...
Serious collision in Langley, Maidstone Investigators are appealing for information after a serious collision in Langley, Maidstone. On Monday 25 November at 4.45pm a beige Skoda Octavia travelling from the direction of Heath Road collided with a...
Two men who ran county lines drugs networks between London and Kent have been jailed following a Met operation that was supported by Kent Police. Oludewa Okorosobo, 25 of Flaxman Road, Camberwell was sentenced to three years and four months’...
A 28-year old man is to appear in court charged with an attempted robbery in Folkestone. It was reported that an attempted robbery took place at a shop in Sandgate Road during the evening of Monday 18 November 2019. Dean Griffin, of no fixed...
A man has been left with life changing injuries after being hit by a bus in Kent on Monday. The collision happened on Priestfields near to the junction with Borstal Street in the Village of Borstal near Rochester. A man is understood to have been...
Detectives are investigating the reported rape of a woman in Rochester. The incident happened in The Vines, off Crow Lane, between 2.30am and 4am on Sunday 24 November 2019. The victim, a woman in her 20s, had been out with...
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are continuing to investigate the death of a man in Rochester. Kent Police was called to a property in the High Street at 6.09am on Thursday 21 November 2019 and attended alongside the...
Officers from Kent Roads Policing have removed 3 vehicles travelling in convoy on #M20 #Maidstone seized- all being driven by non licensed holders and all uninsured. The three for one stop happened in the early hour on Saturday morning. This send...
Information is sought to help locate a woman who has been reported missing from Canterbury. Poppy Hollis was last seen in the Littlebourne Road area on the afternoon of Tuesday 19 November 2019 and is believed to have travelled to London. The 31...
Lane closures have been put in place on the A2 near Bexleyheath following the outbreak of a fire. Two lanes have been closed as a result of the incident that is on the eastbound carriage near to the Falconwood Interchange. Drivers in the area have...
An unprovoked assault on a Kent Police detective by a man who had just been released from custody has resulted in a two year prison sentence being imposed. Samuel Tesefay repeatedly punched and kicked the detective constable outside Medway Police...
Information is being sought following a report of an aggravated burglary in Ashford. It was reported that at around 9.35pm on Thursday 21 November 2019 a woman in a property in Woolreeds Road opened the back door and was threatened by a man holding...
Bethany Peters has gone missing from the Sittingbourne in Kent. She was last seen at around 7.30pm on Thursday evening. If anyone sees her please call police straight away she is being classed as very vulnerable and is suffering long term health...
Detectives investigating the death of a man in Rochester have arrested two men. Kent Police was called to a property in the High Street at 6.09am on Thursday 21 November 2019. Officers and the South East Coast Ambulance Service attended the scene...
Heroin and crack cocaine found by a police dog in the air vents of a car in Dover has led to a drug dealer being jailed for seven years and ten months. Sixty wraps of the class A substances were found in the vehicle, which was being driven by Jaisha...
There are long delays on the M25 anti-clockwise approaching Dartford Crossing due to an earlier collision which closed one of the tunnels. The scene has been cleared and both tunnels have now re-opened, however long delays remain in the area and on...
An arrest has been made following a report of a robbery at a shop near Dover. Police were called to the commercial premises in Sandwich Road, Eythorne at 7.16am on Wednesday 20 November 2019 when the robbery had just taken place. It was reported a...
A burglar who attempted to steal from a number of homes in the same street in Chatham has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Darryl Davis, of Penfold Close, Chatham targeted houses in Elliotts Way and also attempted to break into a van in...
A Medway woman has been charged following an attempted robbery at a shop in Gillingham High Street. On Sunday 17 November 2019 at around 8pm, Kent Police was called to a fast food outlet where a woman allegedly made threats to shop staff with a...
A man has been charged with possessing a firearm found inside a customer locker at a gym in Dartford. The pistol and ammunition for it were located at the premises in Darenth Road on the evening of Wednesday 30 October 2019. A Kent Police officer...
Witnesses sought following Sittingbourne assault Witnesses are being sought following reports of two men being assaulted in a carpark near Sittingbourne High Street. At round 7.50pm on Monday 4 November 2019, the two victims were walking along the...
Nathan Clifton is wanted in connection with an investigation into death by dangerous driving in #Dover.
If you know where he is call 101, quoting Wanted and Serious Collision Investigation Unit reference, BF/118/19.
Detectives investigating a series of sexual assaults on women travelling on buses in east and north London are launching a fresh appeal to help identify a man they wish to speak to. A new image has been released by the Met’s Roads and Transport...
A school coach has crashed into scaffolding in Sheerness town centre this afternoon. The coach operated by Travel master had children onboard at the time as it attempted to turn left off the A250 in the town on to St George. The single deck coach...
A six car collision on the coast bound carriage has caused long queues and traffic chaos on the M20 this evening. Highways England reported the crash happened just before 6pm on Monday evening causing both side of the carriage way to come to a halt...
A man has pleaded guilty to murdering his girlfriend, who was found with fatal head injuries in a flat in Beckenham in July. David McCorkell, 54 of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Monday, 18 November to the murder of Diane Dyer...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a fire in a domestic property on Plumpton Walk in Canterbury. Two fire engines were in attendance and crews arrived to a large fire in the bedroom area of the property. Firefighters wearing breathing...
Emails are being sent from a fake Netflix email account saying ‘updating your payment details’ or ‘expired membership’ in an attempt to steal your personal or financial information. If you’re worried about the security of your accounts, we’d...
The #BlackwallTunnel has been closed southbound following a collision inside the tunnel. Southbound #A12 traffic is slow moving back beyond the #Bow Flyover. Traffic is also slow moving on the East India Dock Road. Long queues are being reports and...
Witnesses are encouraged to come forward after a man was reportedly assaulted with a wooden plank and metal pole in #Margate. Officers were called at 12.04am on Sunday 17 November 2019 to a report of a disturbance involving a number of people in...
Twenty wraps of suspected class A drugs were seized after Kent Police officers stopped a car in Tonbridge. Patrols from the Community Policing Team stopped the driver of a car in Quarry Hill at around 6pm on Friday 15 November 2019. The drugs...
A brass Victorian lectern has been reported stolen from a church in Edenbridge. The heavy ornate stand was taken from the Holy Trinity Church in Crockham Hill between 9am and 5pm on Wednesday 6 November 2019. Officers are investigating the theft and...
Eight fire appliances from Kent Fire and Rescue Service are currently at the scene of a large fire in an industrial building on Manor Way, Swanscombe. The blaze broke out at around 6.30am on Saturday morning. Large black clouds of smoke can be seen...
Fire crews from Kent Fire and Rescue Service were called just after 5pm on Friday to a fire in the cellar of a building on the High Street, Brompton, Gillingham. Four fire appliances were sent to tackle the blaze. Crews wearing breathing apparatus...
Witnesses to a reported sexual assault in Snodland are being urged to come forward. The incident happened on Holborough Road at around 10.30pm on Thursday 14 November 2019. The victim, a woman in her 40s, was walking between the clock tower and the...
Detectives investigating the reported rape of a woman in Maidstone have released a CCTV image of a man who may have important information. The incident happened in Brenchley Gardens between 2am and 3.10am on Sunday 10 November 2019. The victim, a...
Please do not be fooled into buying fake perfumes. PCSO from Kent Police have been busy this afternoon on Chatham High Street. Police teams today seized around 100 bottles of fake perfumes. These are poor quality and potentially linked to organised...
One lane of the busy A2 remains closed between Dunkirk in the outskirts of Canterbury and the M2 this evening following a police shakedown that saw a number of people detained and handcuff in the outside land of the busy carriageway. Two patrol and...
A search of a suspicious vehicle in Tunbridge Wells has led to a man being charged over the supply of drugs. At around 11am on Wednesday 13 November 2019 officers stopped a Mini Countryman which was being driven in London Road, Southborough. A...
Money stolen from a cash machine at a supermarket in Cranbrook is being investigated by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate. On Thursday 14 November 2019 it was reported that a digger had been driven into the Co-operative building on the...
A suspected drug dealer has been charged with offences in Chatham. On the afternoon of Monday 11 November 2019 patrols spotted a suspected drug deal taking place in Ordnance Street. One man left the scene on a bicycle and was followed then stopped...
Charges have been brought against a man suspected of carrying out a knifepoint robbery at a shop in Northfleet. At around 2.15pm on Saturday 9 November 2019 a suspect is reported to have entered the Nisa store in London Road and jumped over a...
