Dear Editor,
Cheshire Police are proposing to close 11 helpdesks at stations around the county, including the one in Nantwich.
Only five will remain open. Each will serve a population of over 200,000. This is a crazy idea.
Nantwich Town councillors have called for more police action against inconsiderate and dangerous parking in the town centre.
The issue was raised by councillors at the town council meeting last night (February 10).
Residents in Crewe and Nantwich have a few days left to make their views known on the level of council tax people pay for their police service.
Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer’s survey will close at midday on Tuesday January 25.
Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer has called on the Government to rethink a decision to freeze police officers pay.
Last week, the Government made the decision to freeze police officer pay for all of those whose salaries exceed £24,000 in 2021/22.
A school bus collided with a van parked outside Brine Leas School in Nantwich today.
No pupils were on board the bus at the time of the crash, and it’s believed no one was injured.
Police are investigating reports that a young teenage girl in Nantwich was approached by a gang of men who made “inappropriate comments” towards her.
The 14-year old girl was walking on the footpath next to the River Weaver, behind Manor Road North, when she was approached by three men.
Residents in Nantwich will be offered virtual mental health and wellbeing sessions funded by Police and Crime Commissioner David Keane.
The local policing team and volunteer group, Nantwich Buddies, have received funding from the Community Police Fund to run an eight-week course.
MPs in Cheshire have welcomed a police recruitment drive which they say has resulted in an “additional” 91 police officers on the streets.
It comes as Cheshire’s PCC David Keane also this week approved a 2021-22 budget to recruit another 88 officers by raising the policing precept of Council Tax by £1.25 per month for Band D property holders.
Eddisbury and Crewe & Nantwich MPs Edward Timpson and Kieran Mullan have welcomed additional £11.8 million funding for Cheshire Police in 2021-22.
Home Secretary Priti Patel announced policing will receive up to £15.8 billion in 2021-22 – an increase of £636 million on last year.
More than 70 offences were recorded during a police operation targeting lorry drivers on Cheshire’s busy roads.
Dozens of “Traffic Offence Reports” were issued to drivers using motorways and main A roads across the county.
Stunned Sunday afternoon walkers and cyclists watched a dramatic police car pursuit through villages and country lanes near Nantwich.
Witnesses say they saw several marked and unmarked police vehicles in pursuit of a Seat Leon for up to an hour yesterday (August 16) evening.
Cheshire Police have issued a plea for drinkers to “help keep themselves and others safe” when visiting re-opened pubs, bars and restaurants this weekend.
It’s the second weekend such venues have been allowed to open, and police expect thousands more people to be out.
Residents in Nantwich and Crewe are being urged to remain vigilant and “act responsibly” as pubs and restaurants reopen this weekend.
For the first time in more than 100 days, licensed premises across Cheshire will be reopening their doors to customers as lockdown restrictions ease further.
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