Excellence in policing awards 2026

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Third Annual Recognition of Excellence in Policing Awards in Devon and Cornwall The police service continues to face challenging times, making it all the more important to recognise and celebrate...
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Excellence celebrated at annual Police Awards 2025

Friday 13 June 2025

Exceptional examples of how police officers, staff and volunteers go above and beyond in their line of duty to make Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly safer places to live, work and visit, has...
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Excellence in Policing Awards: Museum of Policing in Devon & Cornwall celebrates ‘everyday heroines and heroes affecting real change in our communities’

Tuesday 27 August 2024

The Museum of Policing in Devon & Cornwall is celebrating its part in marking the achievements of outstanding police officers working across the two counties, and the Isles of Scilly.  Devon...
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As we remember the 80th anniversary of D-day, we pay tribute to Royal Marine Commando, A/Sergeant, Jim Easter.

Friday 5 July 2024

As we remember the 80th anniversary of D-day, we pay tribute to Royal Marine Commando, A/Sergeant, Jim Easter. John Casson first met Jim in 1985 when he served as a Devon and Cornwall Constabulary...
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John Casson Foundation’s annual fundraising dinner with guest speaker former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Sir Richard Dearlove raises £22,465 to support Cornwall’s Young and Talented and local children’s charities.

Friday 3 May 2024

At The Idle Rocks hotel in St Mawes, Cornwall on Wednesday 10th April 2024.     On Wednesday 10th April, John Casson MBE hosted the annual John Casson Foundation fundraising dinner at the...
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Celebrations as mini Museum officially opens in Tavistock: ‘It is fantastic that Devon and Cornwall’s policing heritage is being preserved in this way’

Monday 11 March 2024

Decades of policing history in Devon and Cornwall was celebrated with the official opening of a new museum in Tavistock. The Museum of Policing in Devon and Cornwall (MOPIDAC) unveiled its mini...
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From the archive, John Casson in the late 1990s was instrumental in the statutory regulation of the UK security industry

Thursday 8 February 2024

You may not know that the statutory regulation governed by the Security Industry Authority opposed to self-regulation nearly didn’t happen in 2003 had it not been for John Casson. John Casson MBE...
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John Casson’s tribute on BBC to the late Sir Michael Parkinson who was a good friend and who generously gave his time to support John Casson’s charity activities.

Thursday 8 February 2024

The late Sir Michael Parkinson Our dear friend Sir Michael Parkinson, such a kind and generous man, a real gentleman, who we were privileged to know and be able to call our friend, passed away of old...
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Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6 is the John Casson Foundation guest speaker for this year’s fundraising dinner

Thursday 8 February 2024

The John Casson Foundation, renowned for its commitment to supporting charitable causes, is set to host its annual fundraising dinner at The Idle Rocks on Wednesday, 10th April 2024. The event, in...
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John Casson Foundation welcomes BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner as guest speaker to a fundraising lunch which raises just under £31,000 for the Cornwall Air Ambulance

Tuesday 11 October 2022

At The Idle Rocks hotel in St Mawes, Cornwall on Friday 30 September 2022.     In 2004, while reporting from Al-Suwaidi, a district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Frank Gardner was shot six times and...
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