TWO Southend gang members have been jailed for a total of more than nine years after a months-long police operation. Essex Police launched a “sustained and significant policing operation” in ...

EVERY burglary, sexual offence and violent crime in Southend in July have been compiled into an interactive map. From Eastwood ... that can often be linked to gangs and county lines, but can ...

A DRUGS gang ringleader who exploited vulnerable people to flood Southend with class A drugs and made enough money to plan to rent a £2,000-a-month flat has been jailed. Enoch Odubanjo ...

A dispersal order has been put in place covering parts of Southend this evening following a brawl in the city centre. Officers were on the scene within one minute of reports of a group involved ...

“Knife crime and gangs are a blight on our communities. The outrageous behaviour of the groups who visited Southend [on Tuesday] was appalling and it is right the police took the robust ...

FOUR people have been charged after knives and suspected class A drugs were seized in Southend as police crackdown on knife crime across the county. Police have been building their investigation ...

Simon Ford, from Southend Council, told a Commons committee ... Mr Ford said vulnerable youngsters were being recruited by organised criminal gangs to transport and deal drugs in the Essex seaside ...

Mr Levin, from Dagenham, was stabbed and died at Miss Russell’s home in St Anns Road, Southend, and another man was injured. This was another unnecessary death linked to gang activity in Essex.

highlighted this week after three girls in their teens claimed to have been gang-raped by a group of boys behind a beach kiosk at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Walton ...