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.
Detectives hunting a sex attacker after an assault more than six weeks ago have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace.
The assault happened when the victim – a woman in her 30s – was walking along Market Street in Crewe at around 1.50am on October.
A new perpetrator programme has been launched in Cheshire Police custody suites to target those committing domestic abuse offences to change their behaviour and prevent reoffending.
Cheshire Police is one of the first forces in the country to offer the perpetrator custody programme in each of its three custody suites in Middlewich, Chester and Runcorn.
Age UK charity has join ed Cheshire East Council in warning older people to be aware of “cost of living” scams.
Last year, 5,281 people reported being scammed in Cheshire, costing them over £20 million.
Two men have been arrested by detectives investigating the serious assault of a pensioner in Crewe.
A 22-year-old and 24-year-old, both from the Crewe area, were arrested yesterday (November 7) on suspicion of section 18 assault.
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