A new initiative to boost confidence in the UK police has been launched.  Islington, Lewisham and Havering in London are having specifically targeted ultra-local posters at bus stops and other “street level” locations on roads and other locations that are deemed to have a crime or anti-social behaviour problem.

http://content.met.police.uk/Campaign/localpolicing

R2D2 on steroids? Or a daft CCTV camera on wheels? New “robot nightwatchman” aims to replace manned security patrols.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/science/coming-soon-a-night-watchman-with-wheels.html?_r=1&

Massive safe causing massive headache in Cardiff.

http://www.locksandsecuritynews.com/pages/6831/massive_safe_giving_nightclub_owner_a_major_headache/

Eight strong burglary gang banged up for 28 years:

http://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/blog/2013-12-20/notts-men-jailed-regional-burglary-conspiracy

And, on a lighter note, Ocean’s Eleven (jokingly) named as suspects in massive Kentucky, U.S. bourbon heist.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/us/kentuckys-case-of-the-missing-bourbon.html

(We suspect it might be the guy with the really bad hangover)