The Top Five Gifts At Risk This Christmas
Brits should have their wits about them this festive shopping season, with cybercriminals looking to get hold of the most in-demand items this Christmas....
UK High Streets Hit By Rising Christmas Shoplifting
The UK is facing a shoplifting crisis, with national offences rising to their highest level on record. ONS data shows 516,971 shoplifting incidents were recorded in the...
Police track £12,500 tool thief thanks to GPS monitoring tag
Two men have been sentenced for a series of thefts of tools estimated to be valued at over £12,500 from vans across Carmarthenshire and...
Two found guilty of conspiracy to murder following armed hit on...
Two people who plotted an armed hit on a caravan have been found guilty of conspiracy to murder following a two-week trial.
Swansea Crown Court...
Dyfed-Powys Police back Welsh Athletics safer running campaign
Dyfed-Powys Police backs campaign to make running safer for women this winter
Dyfed-Powys Police has backed a campaign aiming to make running safer for women...
Woman jailed for part in knifepoint attempt robbery at Milford Haven...
A 31-year-old woman has been jailed for an attempt robbery after she entered Pill Corner Stores with a knife and demanded money from the...
Woman jailed for part in knifepoint attempt robbery at Milford Haven...
A 31-year-old woman has been jailed for an attempt robbery after she entered Pill Corner Stores with a knife and demanded money from the...
Urgent Scam Warning
Property Saviour Raises Alarm on Cash House Buyer Scams: 7 Crucial Checks All Sellers Must Make
With property scams costing UK homeowners hundreds of millions...
Police Discover Over £10,000 Worth Of Cocaine Following Successful Llanelli Drugs...
Officers have taken more than £10,000 worth of cocaine off the streets following a successful drugs warrant at a Llanelli home.
Andrew Kane Rees, aged...
National Police Wellbeing Survey Results Published
The National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS) has today, Wednesday 6 August, published the results of the 2025 National Police Wellbeing Survey – the largest employee...
Police In North Wales Recorded Almost 600 Hit-And-Run Incidents – Including...
Police in North Wales recorded almost 600 hit-and-run incidents over the past 7 years, with casualties ranging from young children to older people.
The figures,...
Picking Bluebells Could Cost You £5,000
Families are being urged to think twice before picking wildflowers like bluebells as it could lead to hefty fines or even imprisonment.
Ecologists from Arbtech.co.uk have issued...
Charity Nacro Calls For Urgent Action Against Disturbing State Of Prisons...
Nearly half (49.6%) prisons rated as a concern or serious concern – the largest number of prisons rated as of serious concern since publications...
20 Year Prison Sentence For Man Who Raped And Controlled Women
Jamil Ahmed left four women living in fear of his violent behaviour
A man has been jailed for 20 years for rape, controlling and coercive...
Swansea Man Who Hit And Dropped Dog Is Imprisoned For 18...
A Swansea man has been sentenced to 18 weeks of prison after he admitted to causing a Jack Russell Terrier to suffer after hitting...
MISSING | Have you seen 51-year-old Mark, reported missing from his...
MISSING | Have you seen 51-year-old Mark, reported missing from his home in Garnant in the Ammanford area?
Mark is described as being of a...
Man remanded in custody after police find cannabis plants worth up...
A man has been remanded in custody after police found cannabis plants with an estimated street value worth up to £242,000 in a derelict...
Daniel Gravell sentenced to nine years in prison for rape and...
Carmarthen man Daniel Gravell sentenced to nine years in prison for "truly wicked" rape and voyeurism offences.
Daniel Gravell, aged 43, was found guilty of...
APPEAL: Robbery in Llanelli
Dyfed-Powys Police is appealing for witnesses to a robbery which was reported in Llanelli at just after midnight today (Saturday, June 21).
A man is...
Police scheme using teams of officer to spot and disrupt potentially...
Project Vigilant will soon cover the whole of Dyfed-Powys Police
An operation that sees uniformed and plain clothes police officers act as disruption teams to...
Outraging Public Decency in Llanelli
APPEAL | Dyfed-Powys Police is investigating a report of outraging public decency that occurred in Llanelli, at approximately 4.45pm on Saturday, May 10, 2025.The...
Successful community engagement day in Crossgates as part of Operation Apex
On Sunday 8th June, roads policing officers from Dyfed-Powys Police held a successful community engagement day in Crossgates as part of Operation Apex, a...
Police Incident At New Dock Road Llanelli
Ongoing incident in New Dock Road. Please avoid the area. Have been on site and spoken to police.
A 100m cordon is currently in place...
Police appeal following theft of vehicle
Appeal | We are appealing for information following the theft of a vehicle in Carmarthen this morning
We received a call just after 7.20 this...
Ammanford man jailed for 12 years for historic child sexual offences...
An Ammanford man who raped and sexually abused two children, will spend the next 12 years behind bars, thanks to the courage of his...
Swansea man jailed after torching rival’s car and homophobic abuse against...
A man from Swansea has been jailed after he deliberately set fire to another man’s car.
34-year-old Jamie Paton, from Penlan, committed the arson on...
Carmarthen man found guilty of rape and voyeurism
A Carmarthen man has been found guilty of committing rape in 2002 and admitted to voyeurism following a two-week trial at Swansea Crown Court.
Daniel...
Teenage girl sentenced for attempted murder at Carmarthenshire school
A 14-year-old girl has been jailed for the attempted murder of two teachers and a pupil at a school in Carmarthenshire.
The teenager, who cannot...
Landlord jailed after 200 cannabis plants found at his property
A man who allowed members of an organised crime gang to establish a commercial scale cannabis factory at his property has been jailed.
Martin Evans...
Operation Spotlight
Dyfed-Powys Police have joined police forces across the UK in the national Operation Spotlight campaign, coordinated by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC).
This ongoing...
Fatal RTC appeal – A4138 Llanelli to Hendy
Dyfed-Powys Police is appealing for information about a fatal collision on the A4138 between the Llangennech roundabout and the Crematorium roundabout, Carmarthenshire, which occurred...
Dark web site taken offline as information on 63 users passed...
Sixty-three UK-based users of a Dark Web site hosting child sexual abuse material have been identified following work by the National Crime Agency.
Police in...
Fatal RTC appeal – road between Myddfai and Llandovery on March...
APPEAL | We are appealing for witnesses who may have information about a fatal collision on the unclassified road between Myddfai and Llandovery, which...
Three people have been charged and remanded in custody after police...
Three people have been charged and remanded in custody after police found cannabis plants worth up to £595,000 growing in a disused trye centre.
Dyfed-Powys...
Three charged after cannabis worth over half a million pounds found...
Three people have been charged and remanded in custody after police found cannabis plants worth up to £595,000 growing in a disused trye centre.
Dyfed-Powys...
Over 120 Llanelli people identified as “money mules” in fraud investigation
More than 120 people living in the Llanelli area have handed over their personal bank details to criminals involved in money laundering in exchange...
Three men jailed for kidnapping and assaulting a man following a...
Each of the men have been jailed for eight years and one month respectively for deliberately enticing the victim to a remote location, and...
Cadetiaid Gwirfoddol yr Heddlu yn Sir Gaerfyrddin yn cefnogi ymgyrch ymddygiad...
Mae pobl ifanc yn eu harddegau yn Sir Gaerfyrddin wedi bod yn camu i’r adwy i gael effaith gadarnhaol drwy wirfoddoli eu hamser i...
Carmarthenshire Volunteer Police Cadets support anti-social behaviour campaign
Carmarthenshire Volunteer Police Cadets support anti-social behaviour campaign
Teenagers in Carmarthenshire have been stepping up to make a positive impact by volunteering their time to...
Missing person appeal
MISSING | Can you help us find 25 year old Brook from Carmarthen? She's described as approx 5'5 tall, has a nose ring and...
Mishcon de Reya instructed to pursue pardon for Ruth Ellis
Leading London-based law firm, Mishcon de Reya, has been instructed to pursue legal action to secure a pardon for Ruth Ellis, the last woman...
Dog bite appeal
Dyfed-Powys Police is investigating a report of a man having been bitten by a dog while cycling in Pembrey Country Park at around 2.30pm...
Cannabis worth over £860,000 seized in one week during police crackdown
Cannabis plants worth more than £860,000 have been seized from properties in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys in just one week as police continue their...
RTC appeal
We are investigating a collision on the B4310 outside Horeb Chapel, Carmarthenshire, which occurred sometime between 8.50am and 9.05am today (March 6).
A dark blue...
Former Dyfed-Powys Police staff member charged
Former Dyfed-Powys Police CCTV operator, Russell Hasler, aged 41 from Llandysul, appeared at Llanelli Magistrates Court today (March 5) charged with Controlling and Coercive...
JAILED | An Ammanford man has been jailed after pleading guilty...
Robert Smith, 26, of Penygarn Road, Ammanford, admitted to committing the rape when he appeared at Swansea Crown Court on Monday 24 February and...
CARCHAR | Mae dyn o Rydaman wedi’i garcharu ar ôl pledio’n...
Cyfaddefodd Robert Smith, 26 oed, o Heol Penygarn, Rhydaman, ei fod wedi cyflawni’r trais pan ymddangosodd yn Llys y Goron Abertawe ddydd Llun 24...
Grieving mum speaks of devastating loss as her son’s killer is...
A grieving mum has described the devastating loss of her ‘loving, caring and funny’ son as his killer is jailed.
Liam Morgan Whittle died after...
Richard Jones jailed for life for the murder of Llanelli mum...
The family of Llanelli mum Sophie Evans say they will never forget her ‘beautiful smile and comforting ways’ as a man is jailed for...
Public nominations for the We Care Award are now open!
Nominate a Dyfed-Powys Police Officer, Staff Member, or Volunteer for the 2025 ‘We Care’ Award.
Dyfed-Powys Police is busy getting ready their 2025 Force Awards...