By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
More than £600,000 has been spent on body-worn video cameras by Cheshire police since 2017.
A freedom of information request to the force shows that £535,000 was spent on equipping ‘frontline operational’ officers with the technology since 2018, with another £90,000 for ‘taser officers and football spotters’.
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.
Former Crewe Alex football coach Barry Bennell has been sentenced for sexually abusing two young boys more than 30 years ago.
The 66-year-old, currently in prison after being convicted of similar offences in 2018, appeared via video link at Chester Crown Court, where he was sentenced to an extra four years in prison – to run consecutively to his current 30-year prison term.
Police have recovered a haul of knives and drugs in a month-long crackdown tackle knife crime in Crewe.
Officers from the “Problem Solving Team” carried out weapons sweeps and drugs warrants and targeted addresses in the town.
Detectives investigating serious drug crime in Crewe and Nantwich say they have arrested three men.
Officers carried out raids on homes in the Stockport area before making the arrests.
A Nantwich man has been charged in connection with drug and firearm offences, police said today.
Alexander Hewson, 28, of Weaver Road, has been charged with conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs.
Nineteen people have been arrested by Cheshire Police during a week of action targeting “county lines” criminals in the county.
Officers arrested 14 men and five women on suspicion of drug offences and executed a number of warrants which resulted in heroin and cocaine being seized.
Cheshire Police has unveiled its new “community policing” model with “dedicated officers and PCSOs” in 122 community areas.
It will include new police bases in community and village halls in and around Nantwich.
A cyclist has died after a suspected hit-and-run collision with a car in Crewe earlier today, police have confirmed.
The 41-year-old woman was cycling on Hungerford Road near to Hungerford Terrace when the incident happened shortly before 7am.
Detectives are hunting a man with an octopus tattoo who attacked and raped a woman in a park area of Woore.
The attack happened in a park area on Audlem Road in the quiet Shropshire village eight miles south of Nantwich.
A spate of courier fraud scams have left Cheshire victims without thousands of pounds, police have warned.
Officers warned the public about courier fraud in July, but detectives say they are continuing to see residents falling foul of the crime.
A new initiative to reduce reoffending by women in Crewe and Nantwich area is being trialed by Cheshire Police and restorative justice provider Remedi.
The scheme, with funding from Police Crime Commissioner, will work with female offenders to address the root causes of their crime.
A man is seriously injured in hospital after a collision with a van which failed to stop at the scene in Crewe, police say.
Officers are appealing for witnesses and information following the collision involving the 33-year-old pedestrian and a white Peugeot van.
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