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Officers from the Operation Prosper team in Walsall (Image: WMP)<\/p>\nOfficers executed drugs raids, discovered weapons and stolen cars under Operation Prosper<\/p>\n
09:11, 10 May 2025Updated 09:16, 10 May 2025<\/p>\n
Officers from the Operation Prosper team in Walsall (Image: WMP)<\/p>\n
Police busted a Walsall brothel as officers arrested 20 people in a clampdown on organised crime.<\/p>\n
West Midlands Police conducted a series of drug raids and recovered a number of weapons, including knives, knuckle dusters and nun chucks \u2013 a martial arts weapon – over a three-week period.<\/p>\n
Stolen cars were also seized and led to the disruption of a brothel in the town.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Security in place 24\/ 7 after travellers move onto University of Birmingham land<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Vulnerable women and girls were supported by officers and specialists.<\/p>\n West Midlands Police<\/a>\u2019s Operation Guardian team supported efforts to tackle knife crime and serious youth violence in notorious hot spot areas in and around Walsall<\/a> Bus Station, Park Street, Bradford Street and Gallery Square in the town centre.<\/p>\n The crackdown, called Operation Prosper, was funded by \u00a325,000 from the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and has seen the establishment of a team focused on youth violence, organised crime and anti-social behaviour.<\/p>\n Sgt Jennifer Hulston said: \u201cOur dedicated team has made a number of arrests with weapons and stolen vehicles seized.<\/p>\n “I\u2019d like to thank the public for their feedback since Operation Prosper launched.<\/p>\n “The information passed to us led to a number of good results in terms of arrests and disruption of criminal activity.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want people to be coming into Walsall to use the facilities and know it is a safe town.<\/p>\n “But we need people to treat it with respect, look after it and that\u2019s what we want to do for them as well, clearing the streets of criminality and anti-social behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n The team is made up of a sergeant and five officers and is focused on cracking down on crime by arresting known offenders.<\/p>\n It disrupts organised criminal gangs and those intent on inflicting fear and misery to the people who live, work and commute through Walsall town centre, police said.<\/p>\n The operation concentrates on reducing organised criminal activity in known hotspot locations within the St Matthew\u2019s ward in Walsall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers executed drugs raids, discovered weapons and stolen cars under Operation Prosper 09:11, 10 May 2025Updated 09:16, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,10847],"class_list":{"0":"post-91769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-walsall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114487210005856599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91769","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=91769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}