By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
More than 90% of 999 calls are now being answered by Cheshire Police within 10 seconds compared to 76% this time last year.
And 90% of all grade one incidents in October, November and December were attended within the target time of 15 minutes, police commissioner John Dwyer said.
More than 1,790 people were arrested during Cheshire Police’s Christmas operation, including more than 200 in the Crewe and Nantwich area.
The force has issued its latest figures which show a rise of 23% in arrests compared to the previous year.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Vetting procedures for police recruits in Cheshire have been tightened since a serving officer was jailed for raping a 13-year-old girl, the force’s commissioner has said.
PC Ian Naude, who was then 30, was jailed for 25 years in 2018 for raping the teenager and for four convictions relating to sexual offences against other children.
A police chief said he understands Nantwich residents’ concerns around the spate of night-time thefts from vehicles.
Witnesses have told of incidents on Kingsbourne Estate as well as on Kingsley village, the Highfields area, Stapeley estate and around the Blears Avenue area.
By Mark Smith, local democracy reporter
Residents in South Cheshire are being asked whether they would be prepared to pay 6.4% more tax towards the cost of policing.
The county’s Police and Crime Commissioner John Dwyer says inflation has added more than £14 million to Cheshire Police’s costs, with £6.7 million worth of savings already in the pipeline.
A Nantwich resident who caught the night-time “lurker” breaking in to vehicles, told today how police failed to charge him because “he’d got a good solicitor”.
The householder said she saw him trying car doors in the Blears Avenue area of Nantwich and entering, before rooting around looking for something to take.
Furious residents on a Nantwich estate are demanding action from police against a man who has targeted and stolen from vehicles for more than two years.
The “lurker” has been caught on various Ring and property cameras trying to access unlocked vehicles on the Kingsbourne development in Nantwich.
A burglar who held a pillow over the face of an 82-year-old woman while she was house-sitting a Wistaston property for a friend has been jailed.
Martin McGinley 30, of Smallbrook Walk, Crewe, was sentenced to 38 months imprisonment after pleading guilty.
Three men from Manchester have been charged by Cheshire Police in connection with a high value theft from Pockets store in Nantwich.
Three men were arrested at 5.15pm on Tuesday (December 13) after officers stopped a white Peugeot van on Princess Road, Manchester.
A large cannabis farm has been found at a property in Crewe after police received tip offs from local residents.
Officers recovered a large quantity of cannabis plants at a house on Ruskin Road after information was passed on by the local community.
Cheshire Police say they made 182 arrests across the county in its first weekend of a Christmas crackdown on crime.
Arrests were made for offences including assault, drunk and disorderly in a public space, drink driving, stalking, and domestic abuse.
A man has been jailed after he admitted to sexually abusing a young girl in Crewe.
Martin Gill was first arrested when a stash of child abuse images were found in electronic devices.
Police have issued CCTV images after thieves broke in and stole a Poppy collection tin from a church hall in Wistaston.
Three men are believed to have gained entry to St Mary’s Church Hall on Church Lane.
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