
Here's the latest buyer, business and community insights and updates from across the marketplace.
Police and Crime Commissioner launches Safer Norfolk initiative with partners
12 August 2025Pluggin NewsSupported within the DICM (Norfolk) social value marketplace, The Norfolk Community Safety Partnership (NCSP) brings together local councils, police, fire services, probation, youth services, health, and housing—to tackle crime, reduce disorder, and respond to serious violence. The goal is to...

Cambs & Peterborough PCC calls for a robust policing response to tackle a rise in certain crimes.
12 August 2025Pluggin NewsCambridgeshire and Peterborough’s police and crime commissioner Darryl Preston says a “robust policing response” is needed to tackle a rise in certain crimes". A police and crime panel met on July 16 to review PCC Darryl Preston’s draft annual report...

PCC Community Safety Objectives for Bedfordshire
12 August 2025Pluggin NewsSuppliers to Bedfordshire's public bodies can now support the county's Police & Crime Plan - based-upon seven missions which are underpinned by objectives. The DICM (Bedfordshire) social valuer marketplace brings everything together for communities and business suppliers to collaborate for...

Telefónica Tech social value supports EDI within police ranks
7 August 2025Pluggin News,Telefónica Tech,West Mercia PoliceWest Mercia Police supplier Telefónica Tech is delivering social value linked to the strategic EDI objectives of the PALS programme, enhancing force approaches to existing community cohesion and engagement activities...

£1.8m of Home Office funding forms a base for tackling serious violence in the Thames Valley
7 August 2025Pluggin News£1.8m of Home Office funding goes into local partners as part of the ongoing drive to help tackle serious violence in the Thames Valley.Serious violence and knife enabled crime is falling in the Thames Valley, but further work is taking...

65 people arrested an estimated £618,000 worth of drugs seized as part of a county lines intensification week at the end of June
7 August 2025West Mercia Police"County Lines is something we do take very seriously in West Mercia and we will target organised crime networks that bring drugs from other towns and areas into ours. We need to keep getting that message out that they're not...
