A sex offender from Milton Keynes has been jailed for grooming and sexually abusing a child in a Maidstone hotel
On 19 August 2022, Harrison Langford began using online chat applications to groom a 13-year-old girl. His messages became almost immediately sexual in nature and he encouraged her to share explicit images. Langford, 28, travelled from his home in King Street to Kent on 3 September, to meet the child. He picked her up in […]
A fraudster who helped trick people into paying for cars that did not exist has had his own Porsche seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act
The 32-year-old man from Sheerness received a 16-month suspended prison sentence in December 2020 after admitting his part in a conspiracy in which innocent members of the public were duped into handing over their savings to fake online traders. He was found to have earned more than £1.3 million through the scam but had only […]
Officers are appealing for witnesses following a theft from a shop in Whitstable – (ID 537136)
At around 2.40pm on Wednesday 7 December, it was reported that cash and a debit card was stolen from a drawer at a shop in Oxford Street. The suspect is described as a tall clean-shaven man, of slim build, in his 30s, with light hair. He was wearing a puffer jacket and a dark flat […]
Officers are appealing for witnesses following a theft from a shop in Whitstable
At around 2.40pm on Wednesday 7 December, it was reported that cash and a debit card was stolen from a drawer at a shop in Oxford Street. The suspect is described as a tall clean-shaven man, of slim build, in his 30s, with light hair. He was wearing a puffer jacket and a dark flat […]
Officers are appealing for witnesses following a theft from a shop in Whitstable
At around 2.40pm on Wednesday 7 December, it was reported that cash and a debit card was stolen from a drawer at a shop in Oxford Street. The suspect is described as a tall clean-shaven man, of slim build, in his 30s, with light hair. He was wearing a puffer jacket and a dark flat […]
Police say a 47-year-old man has been arrested after a man was stabbed in Maidstone
Kent Police was called to a report of a man assaulted at around 2.30pm on Wednesday 14 December 2022. Officers attended a property in Knightrider Street, Maidstone where a man was found with a single injury consistent with a stab wound. He was taken to a London hospital for treatment. His injuries are not life-threatening. […]
Police say a 47-year-old man has been arrested after a man was stabbed in Maidstone – (ID 537106)
Kent Police was called to a report of a man assaulted at around 2.30pm on Wednesday 14 December 2022. Officers attended a property in Knightrider Street, Maidstone where a man was found with a single injury consistent with a stab wound. He was taken to a London hospital for treatment. His injuries are not life-threatening. […]
Police say a 47-year-old man has been arrested after a man was stabbed in Maidstone
Kent Police was called to a report of a man assaulted at around 2.30pm on Wednesday 14 December 2022. [block_2] Officers attended a property in Knightrider Street, Maidstone where a man was found with a single injury consistent with a stab wound. He was taken to a London hospital for treatment. His injuries are not […]
Police say a 47-year-old man has been arrested after a man was stabbed in Maidstone
Kent Police was called to a report of a man assaulted at around 2.30pm on Wednesday 14 December 2022. [block_2] Officers attended a property in Knightrider Street, Maidstone where a man was found with a single injury consistent with a stab wound. He was taken to a London hospital for treatment. His injuries are not […]
Women and girls have been given advice and anti-drink spiking products as part of ongoing efforts to promote their safety during an event…
Kent Police officers from the Medway Task Force were joined by representatives from Medway Council, Crime Stoppers and Kent and Medway’s Violence Reduction Unit for the walk and talk event on Friday 9 December 2022. During the event, which took place between 4pm and 7pm, officers and representatives spoke to members of the public, and […]
Women and girls have been given advice and anti-drink spiking products as part of ongoing efforts to promote their safety during an event in Rochester
Kent Police officers from the Medway Task Force were joined by representatives from Medway Council, Crime Stoppers and Kent and Medway’s Violence Reduction Unit for the walk and talk event on Friday 9 December 2022. [block_2] During the event, which took place between 4pm and 7pm, officers and representatives spoke to members of the public, […]
Women and girls have been given advice and anti-drink spiking products as part of ongoing efforts to promote their safety during an event in Rochester
Kent Police officers from the Medway Task Force were joined by representatives from Medway Council, Crime Stoppers and Kent and Medway’s Violence Reduction Unit for the walk and talk event on Friday 9 December 2022. [block_2] During the event, which took place between 4pm and 7pm, officers and representatives spoke to members of the public, […]
A suspected burglar has been arrested following work by a police dog in #Ashford
Kent Police was called to a reported burglary at a business in the Beaver Lane area at around 12.30am on Tuesday 13 December 2022. Officers from Ashford Local Policing Team attended, along with a Kent Police dog handler and police dog Elsa (pictured). They found a door at the premises had been damaged. Following a […]
Block of flats cordoned off in Knightrider Street in Maidstone after stabbing
A Police cordon remains in place this evening (Wednesday, December 14th) around a block of flats on Kniightrider Street in Maidstone town after a person was stabbed earlier in the day. The scene at Lilly Smith House, has been taped off since Wednesday afternoon. Eyewitnesses and local residents reported seeing police dogs and officers at […]
A fisherman whose crew rescued 31 people stranded in the English Channel said they began “screaming for help” in the early hours of the m…
Skipper Raymond had been sleeping when a member of his crew woke him up and said, “There are migrants alongside the boat.” Four people were killed after a small boat capsized off the coast of Kent in the early hours of this morning. Raymond estimated that 45 people were clinging to the collapsed dinghy. […]
A fisherman whose crew rescued 31 people stranded in the English Channel said they began “screaming for help” in the early hours of the morning
Skipper Raymond had been sleeping when a member of his crew woke him up and said, “There are migrants alongside the boat.” Four people were killed after a small boat capsized off the coast of Kent in the early hours of this morning. Raymond estimated that 45 people were clinging to the collapsed dinghy. […]
Sunny Coster is wanted in connection with an assault in #Tonbridge
Sunny also has links to the Maidstone and the Malling areas. [block_2] Anyone with information that could assist in locating him is asked to report it online quoting ‘Most Wanted’ and reference 46/232482/22. You can contact us using this link: https://www.kent.police.uk/ro/report/
A motorist caught reversing on the M2 and another applying her makeup at the wheel were among those targeted during a unique road safety …
Officers from Kent Police’s Road Safety Unit patrolled the county’s motorway network and the A2 in an unmarked HGV cab provided by National Highways, giving them a higher vantage point to spot certain offences. A total of 26 Traffic Offence Reports (TORs) and 13 penalty notices were issued during the operation, which ran from Monday […]