Officers investigating an incident in which a man threatened a member of rail staff with violence at Greenhithe station have released an image of...
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Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of an electrical fire at a home in Dennes Lane, in Lydd, Romney Marsh. Four fire engines, a height vehicle and a bulk water carrier were sent to the property. Crews wearing breathing apparatus used...
Kent Police will have additional officers on patrol this bank holiday weekend to disrupt and prevent any unlawful gatherings taking place. With Covid-19 still posing a serious threat to public health, officers will continue to engage with anyone...
Investigators are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Pembury High Street. The incident took place at around 11.40am on Thursday 27 August, at the junction with Woodsgate Way, and involved two vehicles – a grey BMW 335 car...
Witnesses are being sought following a fatal collision on the A21 near Pembury. The incident took place on the southbound carriageway between the junction with the A26 and the junction with Longfield Road on Thursday 27 August 2020. A white...
Specialist detectives investigating the abduction of three children from their foster home in south London have launched an appeal for information. Bilal Safi, Mohammed Ebrar Safi, and Mohammed Yaseen Safi – aged six, five and three –...
An uninsured drink driver who claimed a woman he had fatally injured was feigning her injuries has been jailed for nine years. Godwin Ohue was more than four times the legal drink-driving limit when he collided with another car in Dartford in...
The A21 has been closed southbound between the A228 and the B2160 due to a serious collision. All emergency services are working at the scene in a response being led by Kent police. The Pembury Bypass is set to remain closed following a collision...
Information is sought to find a man who has been reported missing from Dartford. Alan Cramer was last seen in the Wilmot Road area of Dartford at 11.30am on Wednesday 26 August 2020. The 63-year-old is described as being around 5ft 7ins...
Two men have been charged following an assault in Folkestone. Officers were called to Cheriton Road at 11.55am on Tuesday 25 August 2020 after a 19-year-old man suffered leg injuries consistent with a stab wound. The victim was taken to a...
Officers from the Met Police War Crimes Team have today, Thursday 27 August, arrested a man on suspicion of war crimes, contrary to section 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001. Detectives arrested the 45-year-old man in south east London...
Police have launched an investigation and those onboard the vehicle have been treated by Paramedics after it came under attack by a gang of men in South East London. Police supported by Armed officers were called to Lenham Road in Belvedere late...
ppeal to locate missing man from Canterbury Information is sought to locate a man who has been reported missing from Canterbury. Martin Fryer was reported missing from the Warwick Road area shortly after 9am on Wednesday 26 August 2020. The 52...
Five people charged and remanded from Court ahead of planned protests in relation to extinction rebellion due to be held in London over the Bank holiday weekend. The following people all appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, 25...
A cannabis cultivation found inside a Rochester home has been dismantled. Kent Police attended the property, in Gordon Road, at around 3.45am on Wednesday 19 August following an initial report that a burglary may be in progress. Officers...
Increased patrols are taking place after a group of young people are reported to have thrown rocks at motorists. A lorry driver narrowly escaped injury after an item struck their windscreen while they travelled on the A249, near Kemsley, at...
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to a fire at a block of maisonettes on Woodbine Grove in Penge. The call comes following reports of an explosion in the bedroom with the flat. Part of a split-level six-roomed maisonette on...
The owners of six bicycles, which officers suspect have been stolen in Thanet, are being asked to come forward and identify their property. Kent Police officers seized two of the bikes from a man in Fairfield Road, Broadstairs during the early...
Police were called at 10.26pm on Tuesday, 25 August to reports of a firearm seen. Local officers and an armed response unit attended and stopped a vehicle at Horsley Street, SE17. During the search of the vehicle a hand gun was recovered which is...
Police say they were called to Walden Recreation Ground off Victoria Road where a man was found unresponsive, apparently in a wooded area. He’s been taken to hospital by LAS in a critical condition. The incident is not being treated as suspicious by...
Six fire crews from London fire brigade have been scrambled to Bickley road in Bromley in an attempt to stop hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage to property and possessions after a water mains burst just after 5pm on Tuesday. Fire crews...
Ciaran West has been missing since last night. He was last seen 10.30pm at home. He agreed he would be home this morning but hasn’t shown. He is currently living in Sheerness but has connections to Minster, Queenborough, Warden Bay, London and...
Information is sought to help locate a teenage girl who has been reported missing from Sittingbourne. Lisha Omokhai was reported missing on the evening of Monday 24 August 2020 having last been seen in the London Road area of the town earlier...
A child who was killed when a falling tree branch struck her after it collapsed has been named as Maisy Mayne. The eight year old girl was out with a friend who was also injuries on Friday afternoon during storm force winds. Emergency services...
Two men have been arrested and drugs seized when Kent Police carried out a warrant in Folkestone. Officers investigating suspected county lines activity carried out the warrant at a property in Sandgate Road on the morning of Tuesday 25 August 2020...
On Wednesday, 17 June the MPS’s Directorate of Professional Standards was informed of allegations that non-official and inappropriate photographs had been taken by police at the crime scene in Fryent Country Park, Wembley in relation to the murders...
Police have charged a Rochester man after Kent Police officers investigated a series of assaults in Medway. Ryan Miskin is alleged to have assaulted two men inside a home in London Road, Rochester, on 20 August 2020. The 35-year-old, of Wickham...
Police have charged a man with a serious assault at a pub in Gillingham. Dirk Peterson, 51, of Ivy Street, Rochester, appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court on 21 August 2020 having been charged with grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm. ...
A man has ran into the Co-op on Cheriton Road in Folkestone near the railway station “screaming for help” after he was stabbed. Officers from Kent Police have attended an area was cordoned off for a short time. Officers have since left. Kent...
The face of Govia Thameslink Railway has been was charged with a drink driving after police spotted her drunk and swerving across the road in her vehicle in South Wooden Ferrers. Thirty year old mother of one Abby Rose Boon from Clements Green Lane...
Man who broke in to Melksham garage and caused thousands of pounds of damage jailed A man who broke in to a car garage in Melksham has been jailed. Ian Lawson, 41, of Kennedy Close, Faversham, appeared at Swindon Crown Court on August 20 after...
Three men have been charged following reports that two cash machines in Thanet had been tampered with. Kent Police officers were called to the cash point at the Co-operative supermarket in Grange Road, Ramsgate, at around 8.20pm on Friday 21 August...
Drug charges have been authorised after Kent Police’s County Line and Gang Team stopped a vehicle travelling in Gillingham. The car was stopped in Pearl Way at around 1pm on Wednesday 19 August 2020 and a quantity of heroin, crack cocaine and...
A Police helicopter is searching from the air along with officers at Ridge Way in Dartford. The search comes following reports of a man who’s been reported missing.
A number of fire fighters and officers from the London Fire brigade have been called to tackle a blaze that has broken out within a flat on the second floor of Sawyer House on the Kingswood estate in South East London. Fire crews and Paramedics...
Police have closed all lanes of the M20 at Junction 5/6 after a vehicles have been involved in a collision on of the vehicles has left the carriageway.
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A robber who was arrested within 20 minutes of trying to hold up a Whitstable business with a water pistol has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. During the evening of 7 April 2020, Kent Police received a report of a potential...
A county lines drug dealer has been jailed after being arrested in Dover as part of an ongoing campaign to tackle drug supply in the area. Showayne Thompson, 24, of Chichele Road, London appeared before Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday, 19...
Music equipment was seized and groups of revellers were dispersed at the weekend as Kent police officers prevented an unlicensed music event at Darenth Country Park. Officers attended the area at around 8pm on Saturday 22 August 2020 after...
Mohammed Ali, 21 , of Barnet Grove, E2, pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday, 14 July to causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by driving a vehicle whilst uninsured. Today he was sentenced to five years, seven...
= Repeated incidents of antisocial behaviour have led to a Gillingham home receiving a Closure Order. Since September 2019 Kent Police regularly received reports of nuisance activity coming from an address in Milton Road, with 12 separate...
An orange Yamaha motorcycle was travelling along Sutton Lane, Ripple, towards the crossroads with Mongeham Road when it was involved in a collision with a red Peugeot 106 car at 12.46pm on Sunday 23 August 2020. The car was...
A teenage drug dealer has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering a man whom he chased and stabbed to death in Medway. Nathan Kitenge, 18, of King Edward’s Road in Barking, east London, travelled to Gillingham...
A man who absconded from a prison while serving a life sentence has been tracked down by investigators from Kent Police’s Wanted Person Bureau. Gary Crafts, aged 66, was convicted of an armed robbery in 1999 and was at Stanford Hill prison when...
A Yellow warning has been issued by the Met Office Storm Francis will bring some very strong winds leading to disruption to travel and power supplies along with potential damage to trees. Injuries and danger to life from flying debris are...
Police investigating an armed robbery in Plumstead Common on Saturday, 18 July have charged a man. Jonathon Dobberson, 43 of Invermore Place, SE18 was charged with robbery and possession of an imitation firearm. The armed robber attended a south...
A quick-thinking burglary victim tracked down and caught the man who had stolen from him shortly after being targeted by the thief. On 2 December 2019, the victim was at his home in Aylesham when a man called at the property asking him if he...
Thieves have broken into an ambulance and stole the keys, belongings and even the ipad Paramedics use as a sat nav. The London Ambulance (LAS) was targeted at some point just after 9am on Monday morning whilst Paramedics treats a...
Police in Essex are looking for 26 year-old Alex Curtis who’s missing from #Rochford. Alex was last seen in the Union Lane area of the town on 19 August and is described as white, slim, 6ft tall, with short brown hair and facial stubble. When he...
