Cheshire Police recorded the fourth largest drop in recorded crime across England and Wales, latest figures suggest.
Crime statistics released by the Office of National Statistics show for 12 months ending June 2015 there was an overall drop in crime of 4% – 2,245 fewer crimes.
Complaints against Cheshire Police have risen for the fourth year in a row.
There was a small rise in the number of complaints against the force in 2014-15 on the previous year, according to the latest report by Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)
Residents in Nantwich are being warned to remain vigilant after a large number of distraction burglaries across South Cheshire.
Police say a number of distraction burglaries involving men attempting to sell artwork have so far been reported in the Middlewich, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, and Cranage areas of the county.
Motorcyclists in Cheshire face a police crackdown after one was caught speeding at 120mph on a 60mph road.
Operation Caesar is to use unmarked police bikes to catch motorcyclists speeding in Cheshire’s roads.
Youngsters from Nantwich primary schools enjoyed an action-packed week of activities at South Cheshire College.
Primary College 2015 gave 1,200 primary school children a chance to try new activities ranging from cooking and computing to falconry, photography and engineering.
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.
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 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’.
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.
More than 400 suspects across Cheshire have been screened in custody as part of Operation Shield.
A total of 433 people, who have passed through Cheshire Police’s three custody suites, have been screened as part of the forensic property marking initiative.
Recorded rape cases against adults and children in Cheshire has risen to almost 300 a year, latest statistics show.
There were 175 recorded rape offences against adults in the county in 2013-14, according to the Rape Monitoring Group.
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