POLICE are keen to trace the owner of this safe – recovered during a probe into commercial burglaries in Swanage, Weymouth and Dorchester.

On Wednesday (February 28), officers arrested a 47-year-old man from Wiltshire in connection with four reports of non-dwelling burglaries committed between December 14 last year and January 3, 2024.

PC Bryce Scott-Jones, of the Weymouth and Portland Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “As part of our enquiries into these reported burglaries, we have made an arrest and also recovered a damaged safe that we believe may have been stolen.

The safe appears to have been slashed open. Picture: Dorset Police

“We are keen to hear from anyone who recognises this safe or who has any information about where it may have come from.”

Anyone with information should contact Dorset Police via www.dorset.police.uk, or by calling 101, quoting incident number 55240026354. They can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.