West Midlands’ new police chief starts work today aiming to boost public satisfaction by tackling bureaucracy and freeing officers to use their professional judgment.Read
Gangs of fraudsters are making millions of pounds by staging crashes in which they ram the cars of innocent motorists and then claim thousands of pounds on insurance.Read
A terrified shopkeeper, aged 43, was dragged from his bed and forced to open his safe by masked men who terrorised his wife at gunpoint in a Bank Holiday break-in believed to be at about 10.45pm on Monday.Read
Police swooped on homes across Birmingham yesterday as part of an investigation into rogue builders suspected of duping a pensioner out of more than £300,000.Read
A woman whose badly burned body was found in her Birmingham home with a ligature around her neck was six weeks pregnant with her first child, it emerged today.Read
A man found in a car in Birmingham with his hands bound and surrounded by gas canisters had been kidnapped and warned he had been placed next to a bomb.Read
A major security alert was sparked today in Birmingham after a man was found in a car with his hands apparently bound and “canisters” wrapped aound his body.Read
A student gunned down in a Birmingham street had an argument with another man seconds before he was found slumped on the ground with a gunshot wound.Read
Levels of the most serious violent crime in parts of the West Midlands have rocketed by as much as 53 per cent prompting a renewed police crackdown.Read
Police forces in the Midlands have been given a £500,000 funding boost thanks to assets seized from criminals, the Home Office has announced today.Read
