Avon and Somerset Police

Back then, policing wasn’t a lifelong dream. In fact, Emily describes her younger self as “a bit of a rebel”. She was working in an office, looking for something different, unsure where life was heading until she started watching TV programme “The Bill. After becoming hooked, she applied to the police almost on instinct. And it stuck. More than 21 years on, Emily is still her...

A 54-year-old man has been jailed for assaulting a woman in her home and destroying her personal belongings. Darren Morris, aged 54, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday 28 May. He had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal damage, one count each of intentional strangulation, assault by causing actual bodily harm and one count o...

We are releasing images of silverware we’d like to reunite with their legal owners following a burglary at a church in North Somerset. A 15TH Century chalice was among the items stolen from St Paul’s Church, Walton-in-Gordano, which was burgled between Sunday 10 May and Sunday 25 May. The offenders gained entry to the building before breaking into a safe and taking a number o...

My fascination with policing started the same way it has for many people: watching programmes like Police Interceptors on repeat and telling anyone who would listen that it would be me one day. Back then it was probably the blue lights, the fast cars and the excitement that drew me in. Determined to achieve my dream, I originally joined the Special Constabulary at Avon and So...

We are appealing for information relating to an incident of public order in Patchway. Two men were reported for making threats to a group of people standing on green space beside Norton House at around 4pm on Monday 18 May. They parked a white Audi estate in a car park on the Parade before approaching the group with weapons, asking for the whereabouts of a man in a threatenin...