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In mid-July, around 15,000 Sunni Muslims packed into a private religious gathering at a country estate near the tiny Suffolk village of Barham. A major incident was declared following an alleged terror threat. Taxpayers are believed to have footed the bill, but police won't say how much it is.
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A live facial recognition deployment across Tavern Lane and Upper Brook Street on Thursday, 27 August 2026, led to two arrests, Suffolk Constabulary has confirmed, after officers screened 27,531 faces against a watchlist of 771 people.
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Ipswich Police Station on Princes Street has been closed after its front doors were smashed in the early hours of Friday, 28 August 2026, with a man arrested nearby on suspicion of criminal damage.
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Ipswich Borough Council says a partnership with Suffolk Police is cutting anti-social behaviour in the town centre – but when asked to provide evidence to back up the claims, neither the council nor the police could...or would.
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Suffolk police are warning the public about illicit vapes after men in their 30s and 50s collapsed in separate incidents in Ipswich this month, with seized products found to contain a dangerous synthetic cannabinoid.
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A facial recognition van is returning to Ipswich town centre on Thursday, 27 August. Here is what the technology actually does, and the legal reason why police tell you about it in advance, despite the obvious flaw with doing so.
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Suffolk's police and crime commissioner called the latest inspection "a good report". His Majesty's Inspectorate rated the force good on just one of nine measures, and inadequate on two, including how it protects vulnerable people from harm.
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Ipswich Borough Council has agreed to launch a public consultation on extending the borough-wide order that gives officers the power to tackle alcohol-related anti-social behaviour in public spaces, with views being sought from 23 June.
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When a 15-year-old boy with severe epilepsy was beaten by a large group of his peers in an Ipswich park, his mother expected the police to act. What followed, she says, has left her son feeling more unsafe than ever.
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Suffolk Constabulary has reported significant reductions across most crime categories in Ipswich, and the officers behind those numbers deserve fair credit – but the story is more complicated than the headline figures alone can tell.
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The government has accepted that organised crime is gutting Britain's high streets and has put £30m behind a "national crackdown" to fight it, but the funded officers are going to Manchester, the West Midlands, Kent and Essex. Ipswich has again been overlooked – and no one seems to be asking why.
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Police are warning residents to secure their heating oil tanks following a surge in thefts nationally, after prices spiked in the aftermath of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
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