A thief has been jailed for multiple offences in Folkestone

On 21 February 2023, Valter Pimentel was sentenced to 15 months in prison at Canterbury Crown Court for charges including burglary, fraud, and theft. [block_2] It follows an investigation by Folkestone’s Victim Based Crime Team into a number of crimes in the area linked to Pimentel.
Police seen at Blue Hill Viewpoint looking for Missing Chatham Man Charlie

Kent Police are continuing to appeal for information into the whereabouts of a missing man from Gillingham. Officers from Kent Police were seen at the Bluebell Hill viewpoint on Wednesday morning carrying out a search for missing Charlie Charles Colley, 60, was last believed to have been around the Blue Bell Hill end of Maidstone […]
Police seen at Blue Hill Viewpoint looking for Missing Chatham Man Charlie – (ID 552552)

Kent Police are continuing to appeal for information into the whereabouts of a missing man from Gillingham. Officers from Kent Police were seen at the Bluebell Hill viewpoint on Wednesday morning carrying out a search for missing Charlie Charles Colley, 60, was last believed to have been around the Blue Bell Hill end of Maidstone […]
Police seen at Blue Hill Viewpoint looking for Missing Chatham Man Charlie

Kent Police are continuing to appeal for information into the whereabouts of a missing man from Gillingham. [block_2] Officers from Kent Police were seen at the Bluebell Hill viewpoint on Wednesday morning carrying out a search for missing Charlie
Police seen at Blue Hill Viewpoint looking for Missing Chatham Man Charlie

Kent Police are continuing to appeal for information into the whereabouts of a missing man from Gillingham. [block_2] Officers from Kent Police were seen at the Bluebell Hill viewpoint on Wednesday morning carrying out a search for missing Charlie
Kent Police is appealing for information on the whereabouts of a missing man from Gillingham

Charles Colley, 60, was last believed to have been around the Blue Bell Hill end of Maidstone Road, Chatham, at around 2pm on Monday 20 February 2023. [block_2] His current whereabouts are unknown but he may have travelled to Maidstone.
The County Lines and Gangs Team of Kent Police has targeted two suspected dealers in Gravesend

Officers investigating the supply of class A drugs executed a search warrant at a town centre address on February 16, 2023. [block_2] Two men were apprehended on the property. The officers also seized an extendable baton, mobile phones, and crack cocaine and heroin.
Kent Police are looking for information about the whereabouts of a missing #Gillingham man

Charles Colley, 60, was last seen near the Blue Bell Hill end of Maidstone Road in #Chatham around 2 p.m. on Monday 20 February 2023.His current location is unknown, but he may have visited #Maidstone.Charles was last seen dressed in a dark grey Lonsdale jacket, black pants, and black shoes.Anyone who sees him or knows […]
A man was stabbed in Gravesend and four men have been charged

Kent Police were called around 5.20 a.m. on Sunday, February 19, 2023, after a group of men were seen fighting near Milton Road. [block_2] During the incident, one man was reported to have suffered a stab wound to his chest. He is still in a stable condition in a London hospital.
East Malling flats remain in Police lockdown after a serious incident and significant damages – (ID 552352)

A large Police cordon remains in place and along a grass area at the rear of a block of flats on Catlyn Close in East Malling. Officers from Kent Police were called to a property on the ground floor has the rear windows and doors blown out and smashed front windows. Two officers and a […]
East Malling flats remain in Police lockdown after a serious incident and significant damages

A large Police cordon remains in place and along a grass area at the rear of a block of flats on Catlyn Close in East Malling. [block_2] Officers from Kent Police were called to a property on the ground floor has the rear windows and doors blown out and smashed front windows. Two officers and […]
East Malling flats remain in Police lockdown after a serious incident and significant damages

A large Police cordon remains in place and along a grass area at the rear of a block of flats on Catlyn Close in East Malling. [block_2] Officers from Kent Police were called to a property on the ground floor has the rear windows and doors blown out and smashed front windows. Two officers and […]
An arrest has been made by officers investigating reports of beach hut burglaries in Whitstable

A beach hut in Whitstable Harbour was broken into and damaged between 4pm on 21 January 2023 and 7.45am the next day, according to Kent Police. [block_2] Officers arrested a 15-year-old Whitstable boy on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage on Tuesday, February 14.
A computer-generated image of a teenager has been issued by officers investigating a serious assault in Thanet.

The incident took place between 5pm and 5.45pm on Tuesday 7 February 2023. [block_2] The victim, a man in his seventies, was assaulted after confronting a group of four young people who were found in the communal area of a residential building in Canterbury Road, Westgate.
An untaxed vehicle has led officers to seize more than £15,000 of suspected illicit tobacco in Chatham

The cigarettes and loose tobacco were found hidden inside a car in Holborn Lane on Tuesday 15 February by officers from Medway’s Community Safety Unit (CSU). [block_2] The officers were in the area with staff from Trading Standards as part of ongoing enforcement to tackle the sale of illicit tobacco and while there they were […]
A report of indecent exposure in Ashford has prompted an investigation

A man was seen acting inappropriately at a nature reserve in Hothfield around 1.30pm on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. After being challenged by a member of the public, he left the area in the direction of Maidstone Road. [block_2] Officers responded, and the investigation is ongoing.
A convicted sex offender from Sittingbourne has begun his prison sentence after ignoring court-ordered measures to prevent reoffending

Lewis Mortimer was sentenced to five years in prison after being discovered in possession of a large amount of child abuse material, including a paedophile manual. [block_2] Mortimer, 42, of Shortlands Road, Sittingbourne, had a number of previous convictions for child sex offences and had been the subject of court-imposed measures restricting his access to […]
Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Dover.

Kent Police was called at 5.10am on Monday 13 February 2023 following reports that a collision had occurred between two vehicles. A grey BMW 120d was travelling towards Dover along Folkestone Road when it collided with a white Ford transit van travelling in the opposite direction, near to the junction with Rugby Road. [block_2] The […]