Northern Quarter’s ‘Safe Haven’ for vulnerable people at night closes it doors
Safe Haven, the initiative introduced in 2015 to provide support to vulnerable individuals on a Saturday night-out in the city centre, has closed its doors.
Revealed: GMP lost more than 1,000 pieces of evidence in FIVE-YEAR stretch
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) lost more than 1,000 pieces of evidence between 2011-16 according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) report.
Greater Manchester Police face online wrath over ‘ironic’ Big Issue tweet
Earlier this week the GMP City Centre tweeted a comment which irked some Twitter users.
‘Let’s keep raising aspirations’: Youth crime figures plummet across Greater Manchester
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request obtained by Mancunian Matters from GMP revealed that in 2012/13 there were 9,921 charges given to young people whereas last year it had been reduced to 6,776.
‘Savvy’ Manchester football fans can avoid violence abroad despite Euro 2016 hooligan madness – expert
An expert on football policing and hooliganism is confident Mancunian football fans will keep out of trouble in Europe next season, and blamed the French police for violence which marred the start of England’s Euro 2016 campaign.
‘Calculating’ and ‘predatory’ Rochdale man imprisoned for sexually exploiting children
A ‘calculating’ and ‘predatory’ man from Rochdale who admitted sexually exploiting children online has been sentenced to ten years in prison.
‘Despicable’ Gorton crooks steal ‘sentimental’ necklace from ‘vulnerable’ old woman in own home after break in
A ‘vulnerable’ elderly lady has had a ‘sentimental’ gold necklace snatched from her neck by masked robbers in a ‘despicable attack’ in her Gorton home.
‘Clear racial motivation’: GMP condemn ‘abhorrent’ attack on Blackley Jewish Cemetery
A ‘sickening’ and ‘abhorrent’ attack has left fourteen headstones smashed in a Jewish cemetery in Manchester.
Old Trafford ‘vulnerability’ is ‘surprising’ says security expert after Manchester United bomb hoax debacle
The level of ‘vulnerability’ that Old Trafford’s bomb hoax debacle highlighted has been described as ‘surprising’ by a senior security expert.
Crimes by pensioners in Greater Manchester DOUBLE – but GMP deny problem
Alarming figures have exposed the soaring rate of crimes committed by pensioners in Manchester.
Women in critical condition after suffering ‘severe’ head injuries in Cheetham burglary
A woman has been left in critical condition after sustaining ‘life threatening injuries’ after being assaulted by three men during a burglary.