{"id":679869,"date":"2026-01-07T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:09:12","slug":"more-than-750-arrested-in-greater-manchester-crime-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679869\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 750 arrested in Greater Manchester crime crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boyle said anti-social behaviour was &#8220;something that&#8217;s visible in our communities&#8221; and the force was determined to reduce and tackle the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the ages of those involved ranged from about 12 right up to adults who are &#8220;maybe in the night-time economy, maybe intoxicated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boyle said that while 750 arrests might not seem a lot when compared to the force&#8217;s total of about 7,000 in December, they had been made in specific small areas that had been identified as having high amounts of incidents and crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are targeting those issues and we are making big reductions in crime and incidents,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boyle said 100 arrests had also been made in relation to serious violent crime and about 140 for retail crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our ultimate aim is to make our town and city centres safer,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boyle said the winter crime crackdown involved working with local businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite them reporting an increased footfall during the festive season, retail crime fell by 10% compared with December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Winter of Action campaign, which runs until the end of January, is a Home Office initiative that all police forces are taking part in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boyle said anti-social behaviour was &#8220;something that&#8217;s visible in our communities&#8221; and the force was determined to reduce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-679869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115853745580415621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}