Two weeks ago on Lielais prospekts, by Pankūkas un pelmeņi, I rode my bicycle up onto the concrete kerb and lost my dentures. It was already dark, so I never found them.

Ventas Balss, 10 November

On Virkas iela, neighbours are quarrelling over a dog: each tells the police a different version and they keep changing their statements. One insists he was taking the dog for a walk and that it merely sniffed the other man's leg. We explain their rights to them both so they can sort it out themselves from here.

Kurzemnieks, 7 November

Residents report that a homeless person is living near Riteņdārzs; noted for the record.

Kurzemnieks, 7 November

In the evening in Kuldīga, on Kalpaka iela, a pumpkin was kicked in outside a house, but the CCTV does not show it.

Kurzemnieks, 7 November

However good the coffee may taste, stealing it is not allowed. And in just the same way – however much you may fancy a ride on a motorcycle, you must not take one without the owner's permission.

Ogres Vēstis Visiem, 14 November

In Snēpele, someone complains that they cannot step out into their own yard because the neighbours' nasty dog keeps running in.

Kurzemnieks, 14 November

On Pils iela in Kuldīga, a man is behaving incoherently and banging on the windows of the Bangert's restaurant. Another, drunk, is banging on a bus door at the Skrunda bus station because the driver refuses to let him on. Two men are drinking outside Rimi and hitting cars.

Kurzemnieks, 14 November

On 5 November we received a report that a person had been beaten up in the street on Tīnūžu iela in Ogre. On arriving at the address given, we met two minors who explained that there had been no fight at all, but that some boy they did not know had poured a bottle of lemonade over one of them.

Ogres Vēstis Visiem, 14 November

During a patrol we breathalysed six cyclists – all of them sober!

Kurzemnieks, 14 November

Could somebody please explain what renewable electricity is?

Ventas Balss, 21 November

A bag of jars has been dumped outside the vet's clinic: we photograph it and set about finding out who did it.

Kurzemnieks, 21 November

Sheep are being kept in poor conditions in Rumba parish: we drive out and take photographs.

Kurzemnieks, 21 November

A person asks for help because a friend has not answered calls for several days and will not open the door. We go there with the fire service and paramedics, the door is opened, there is nobody in the room and the telephone is lying on the table. A moment later the "missing" man walks out of the next room, safe and sound.

Kurzemnieks, 21 November

Since the middle of the summer, opinions on VAT for local fruit and vegetables have been voiced, sometimes more loudly and sometimes more quietly, sometimes with reasoned argument and sometimes with populism. In other words, on what farmers grow in their fields and gardens, and what we buy day to day at markets and in shops.

Druva, 24 November

In Gulbene, an old, deaf cat had run up a spruce tree and could not get down again on its own.

Druva, 22 November

The programme announced the premiere of A Prayer for Zolitūde, but it was no prayer at all. The host of the event spoke unintelligibly.

Ventas Balss, 24 November

A report was received that, in Ogre district, E. had engaged in unwanted, disruptive and intrusive online communication with F.

Ogres Vēstis Visiem, 28 November

At six in the morning we receive a report that a twenty-year-old is asleep in a stairwell by the attic on Virkavas iela: he had been visiting a friend and they had fallen out. We take him to the bus station so he can travel home to sleep.

Kurzemnieks, 28 November

A mother is worried about her son, who lives in Riga but has been unreachable since 11 November. We establish that all is well – he simply does not want to talk to his mother.

Kurzemnieks, 28 November

In Dzelda, the stoker of a block of flats has thrown too loud a party in the basement.

Kurzemnieks, 28 November

At the bus stop on Rindas iela there are three plastic benches with what look like hollows in them. When it rains they fill up with water, and then the water freezes.

Ventas Balss, 30 November