{"id":957082,"date":"2026-05-13T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957082\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:07:16","slug":"operation-fearless-sees-80-officers-on-streets-of-handsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957082\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Fearless sees 80 officers on streets of Handsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A major police operation involving 80 officers has taken place to launch an initiative to target crime and anti-social behaviour in Handsworth, Birmingham.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Midlands Police (WMP) has brought Operation Fearless to the area, following similar crackdowns in Erdington and the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following its high-profile launch,  a dedicated team of 20 officers will be focusing on crimes affecting residents, businesses and visitors, including drug dealing, shop theft, knife crime and anti social behaviour, WMP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team is set to also work alongside the likes of trading standards, West Midlands Fire Service, immigration enforcement, HMRC and the Soho Road Business Improvement District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major police operation involving 80 officers has taken place to launch an initiative to target crime and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-957082","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116567424866141902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957082","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=957082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}