Police investigating drugs supply have raided six properties across Rochdale and Heywood. Warrants were executed at premises on Gregge Street, Kay Street and Tonge Street, Heywood and on Rouse Street, Newlands Avenue and Clement Royds Street, Rochdale around 6.30am this morning (Thursday 2 July 2020). A cannabis farm was discovered at the address on Rouse…
Greater Manchester Police join forces with National Crime Agency as part of UK’s biggest ever law enforcement operation, infiltrating thousands of criminal encrypted communication platforms. The huge scale operation – codenamed Venetic – has spanned nearly every law enforcement agency across the United Kingdom. Under Operation Venetic, law enforcement agencies across the UK have joined…
Police are appealing for information after hazardous materials were removed from a stolen van which has been found in Manchester. At around 7.20am on Monday 22 June 2020, Lancashire Police were called to reports that a Ford Transit van (ND59 VBE), containing hazardous materials, had been stolen from the Darwen area of Lancashire. At around…
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham is hosting a press conference at 3 pm this afternoon, to discuss the latest on Greater Manchester’s response to the impact of the current coronavirus outbreak. He’ll be joined by Sir Richard Leese, Deputy Mayor and Chair of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership; Cllr Elise Wilson,…
Bury Council and its partners have put together an Outbreak Control Plan to tackle any local rise in coronavirus cases and help keep people safe. But they warn that following the social distancing and hygiene guidelines is the only way to prevent the virus spreading and avert a further lockdown. The plan sets out ways…
Police are appealing for the public’s help to trace a wanted man from the Stockport area. Billy Lee Hatton (11/11/1992) is wanted in connection with an allegation of threats to kill that took place in the Stockport area on 24 June 2020. Hatton is known to have links across Greater Manchester. Anybody with information regarding…
The first set of crime figures released since the introduction of iOPS shows that recorded crime in Greater Manchester has fallen by 8% between 2018 and 2019. There were 28,000 less recorded crimes in GMP during this time, which is the first real reduction in year-on-year recorded crime comparison data. Even though the crime figures…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will today (Tuesday 30th June) announce a “New Deal” which puts jobs and infrastructure at the centre of the government’s economic growth strategy. In a speech in the West Midlands, the Prime Minister will underline his commitment to ‘build, build, build’ in order to upgrade Britain’s infrastructure and skills to fuel…
Police are appealing for information after receiving reports of a man carrying a bladed article on the Metrolink over the weekend. Officers investigating the reports have released two images of a man they are keen to speak to about the incidents and advise anyone who sees the man not to approach him but to immediately…
At around 11pm on Sunday 21 June 2020, police were called to reports of an assault in Clayton Vale near the arches at the junction of River Park Road and Ten Acres Lane. Officers attended and established that three men in their early 20s had been approached by a group of people. The group demanded that…
