Police said they had become aware of phone calls and people being asked to withdraw money 'to assist with a criminal investigation'.

A man threatened to petrol bomb the hostel he was being evicted from. Blackburn Magistrates' Court heard that having made the threat to staff at the Islington Motel, John Moir repeated it to police.

In all three incidents a man purporting to be called DC David Brown from Blackburn Police Station, Ainsworth Street, said he was investigating fraudulent activity on the victims’ bank cards.

In two further separate incidents, two men in their 80s also received phone calls from men purporting to be called DC David Wright and PC Michael Dodds of Blackburn Police Station ...

A man has been found guilty of the attempted murder of a British Transport Police officer. Russell Smith, aged 54, was found ...

In the second incident a man in his 80s received a phone call from a man purporting to be called DC David Wright of Blackburn Police Station, Ainsworth Street, who was investigating fraudulent ...

In celebration of Women's History Month, the Titusville Police Department recognized Verda Blackburn, who, in 1954, became the department’s first policewoman.