Fraudsters are targeting cashpoint users in South Cheshire to steal card details and money, police have warned.
Residents are being urged to be vigilant following reports of cash point fraud in Crewe as well as in Warrington and Ellesmere.
The new Chief Inspector in charge of policing in Nantwich has told councillors a new way of working will benefit the town, despite concerns.
Chief Insp Gareth Lee will be the man in charge of the new Crewe Local Policing Unit (LPU).
Cheshire Police chiefs have defended a radical new shake-up which will see Nantwich officers working from Crewe – by arming them with tablets!
We revealed how Nantwich’s Neighbourhood Policing Unit (NPU) is to be absorbed into a larger Local Policing Unit (LPU) from July 6.
Nantwich police officers will work from Crewe and not the town’s police station under a radical new regime from next month, it has emerged.
And the future of the police station on Beam Street in Nantwich, which has had no public front counter service for three weeks, is now in doubt.
Police raided a house in Nantwich and recovered what is believed to be part of a cannabis farm.
Stunned residents looked on as police vehicles and a number of officers carried out the raid at a house on Rookery Close, Nantwich.
A man from Nantwich has been charged in connection with an investigation into human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
The 49-year-old man, of James Hall Street, Nantwich, is facing one count of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, one count of money laundering and 14 counts of controlling women for prostitution.
Houses were raided and people arrested in Nantwich and Crewe today as part of a large investigation into human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Two people, a 49-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman, have been arrested in Nantwich and Crewe in connection with the investigation.
A Nantwich woman has been found guilty of fraudulently claiming more than £7,000 in benefits – when she had £16,000 savings stashed away.
Tracy Wrench, of Blagg Avenue, Nantwich, admitted fraudulently obtaining £7,067 in housing benefit, council tax benefit and council tax support.
A community scheme to tackle town centre crime in Crewe and Nantwich has scooped a top award.
‘Stamp crime out of town’ (Scoot), a business crime partnership operating across Crewe and Nantwich for 13 years, has been given a Safer Business Award ‘with distinction’.
A Nantwich police officer is to face a charge of common assault after an incident in the town centre, says the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
PC Matthew James Ambrose, based at Nantwich police station, has been summonsed to appear at Manchester City Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday May 27.
Nantwich residents are being urged to sniff out cannabis farms in the town – after £3 million of the drug were seized by Cheshire Police in just three months.
Detectives say organised criminal gangs are using premises across Cheshire to cultivate the drug in local communities.
Cheshire has recorded sixth largest fall in crime across England and Wales, latest figures show.
Statistics from Office of National Statistics (ONS) show crime is down by 3.9% in Cheshire – more than 2,000 fewer crime victims.
Raiders tried to drag a cashpoint machine out of a Nantwich store after ramming the front with a land rover.
The crooks attached a heavy-duty 20ft chain to the machine in the Stapeley Co-operative store on Cronkinson estate.
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