It’s all too easy to place our top professional footballers on pedestals and treat them like ‘Gods’, after all, they have lots of money, trophy wife’s and what’s more we watch them play every week for our favourite football team. However, as a court case this week proved no matter who you are – you’re not above the law. Former Manchester City striker, Kelvin Etuhu (22), was caught on a CCTV camera punching an individual, breaking his jaw in the process, before violently kicking him three times as his victim lay on the ground and was this week sentenced to eight months behind bars for causing actual bodily harm and affray.
Over the last few years, there has been a lot of controversy about the number of Closed Circuit Television Cameras (CCTV) that have sprung up across Britain watching everything you do from doing the weekly shop to enjoying a night out with mates. Here at Crime Prevention Products we believe that everyone should be safe no matter where they go, however one place that everyone wants to feel safe is in the sanctuary of their own home or even their office as they work.
Which is why we hold and supply a wide range of home or office CCTV systems which will enable not home and business owners to see who has or attempted to enter their premises without the proper authority.
Last Sunday, Scottish football said a massive goodbye to the Co-Operative Insurance, after a magnificent 12 years sponsorship deal with the League Cup. It ended after Sunday’s showcase Old Firm final in which Rangers managed to beat their Glasgow rivals Celtic 2-1 and lift the cup for an unprecedented 27th time. From next year, the new tournament will be known as the Scottish Communities League Cup, which will be funded by money seized from acts of crime. This ‘dirty money’ has been confiscated from bent companies, gangland bosses and proceeds of crime and will be worth an estimated £1 million each year to the Scottish Football Association (SFA). 
One of the most devastating ordeals that any shopkeeper, market vendor or kiosk owner has to endeavour is the bank clerk telling them they can’t accept their hard earned cash as it happens to be counterfeit and watch on helplessly at it is confiscated and later destroyed, leaving the vendors with no products and even worse no cash. A report by the Bank of England in 2009 revealed that 566,000 counterfeit notes were in circulation in the UK and of those 95% were found to be twenty pound notes. The report also goes on to say that there are 2.6bn notes in circulation thus making 1 in every 5,000 a fake. At the moment they are “still working on the final statistics for 2010 but the number was coming down quite dramatically” reports Victoria Cleland who is Head of Notes Division. (
We now live in a time where technology is readily available to give us a helping hand, thus making everyday chores that little bit easier. Here at 
With the fuel prices escalating out of control, some employees will be looking at alternative methods of getting into work. Car sharing is an excellent way to cut the cost of the daily fuel charge however this will only work if all parties are willing to participate and that you have people to share with! One method that more and more people are finding is to cycle to work, not only can help you become fitter but you can save a considerable amount of money over time.
Whether it’s walking to the shops, getting fit in the local park or waiting to use the cash machine at the local convenience store, we want to feel safe while carrying out these actions. In saying that, recently we’ve heard various stories about people being robbed at gun point, women being assaulted as they try to get fit and even opportunistic theft, as masked people ‘snatch and grab’ handbags, laptops and wallets as people go about doing their daily business. Theft of any type can/and will leave most people traumatised often taking them months even years to overcome.
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