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Operation AVRO sees 60 arrests and 12 warrants executed during busy day of action in Wigan
14:01 22/05/2026Officers arrested 60 people during another crime-smashing day of action as Operation AVRO descended on the Wigan district yesterday.
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Officers appeal for information following serious collision in Ashton-in-Makerfield
19:13 06/05/2026Our Serious Collision Investigation Unit (SCIU) are appealing for information following a collision between multiple cars in Wigan.
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GMP officers execute 22 warrants and arrest 23 suspects in day of action tackling serious and organised crime across Greater Manchester
16:55 18/02/2026In the early hours of this morning (Wednesday 18 February 2026), our Serious Crime Division led the arrests of 23 men linked to an Organised Crime Group in Greater Manchester.
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Man sentenced to nine years after knife attacks in Wigan town centre
14:15 09/02/2026A man has been sentenced today (Monday 9 February 2026) at Bolton Crown Court after carrying out a series of violent knife attacks in Wigan town centre on 9 August 2025.
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Two arrested after stolen car from West Yorkshire recovered in Tyldesley
14:25 04/02/2026At around 6am today (Wednesday 4 February 2026), officers from our Roads Policing Unit arrested two men on suspicion of burglary and driving offences after a pursuit ended in Tyldesley.
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Our key priorities are to make you feel safe within the areas you live by focussing on the following four themes; reducing Burglary, tackling Anti-Social Behaviour, dealing robustly with drug use and supply, and to promote and enforce safety on our roads.
These priorities will be updated with more specific detail following our Partners and Communities Together Meetings (PACT).
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The most recent Partners and Communities Together (PACT) meeting took place at Norley Hall Adventure Playground on the 2nd April 2026.
At this meeting discissions and consultation was had with yourselves ‘The Public’ and your locally elected officials. As a result of which, our main priority was identified as making you feel safe within the communities in which you live, by tackling four key issues within the Wigan West Ward…
-Knife Crime
-Business Crime (Shoplifting).
-Drug use and supply.
-Anti-social behaviour.
-Anti-social use of motor vehicles.We will continue to monitor and update these priorities over the course of the next 3 months and following the next PACT meeting planned for July 2026.
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Our key priorities are to make you feel safe within the areas you live by focussing on the following four themes; reducing Burglary, tackling Anti-Social Behaviour, dealing robustly with drug use and supply, and to promote and enforce safety on our roads particularly around off road bikes and E- bikes.
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