Court hears how officer intervened after driver deliberately drove truck laden with fuel into his wife's home. • An off-duty special constable and member of the public showed extraordinary courage after a truck driver targeted his wife by driving a fuel-laden tanker into the front wall of her home. Dorchester Crown Court heard how

Dorset Specials target motoring offences following community concerns. • Special Constables from Purbeck section carried out a road safety operation in early April, as part of a campaign to reduce the number of road casualties in Dorset. Staff from the Special Constabulary focused on the Purbeck Safer Neighbourhood Area, to rais

James Vaughan makes move from Wiltshire as he continues varied policing career. • Dorset Police has confirmed the latest addition to its chief officer team after announcing that James Vaughan is to take on the ACC (Operations) portfolio. ACC Vaughan, who has been serving as a temporary assistant chief at Wiltshire, takes up his new post

Two members of Dorset Police use technology to help recover the work of a blind novelist whose pen had run dry. • Kind-hearted experts from a police force have recovered the opening chapter to a blind woman’s novel after she continued to write without realising her pen had run out. Two police members of staff used a crime light

Team made up of five UK police forces is making in-roads against serious and organised crime. • A collaborative operation made up of officers from five forces in the South West has confiscated £3.5 million from criminals as it enters its second financial year. Op Zephyr, which is made up of officers from Avon and Somerset, G