Police & Crime Report for Birkenhead and Bebington: February 2024

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Thanks to action in Bebington and Birkenhead by Merseyside Police:

  • 28 February: Four men from Upton, Oxton and Bidston have been jailed for a combined 76 years for their involvement in a wide-scale plot to supply cocaine across the country. These are the latest men in Merseyside to be jailed as part of Operation Venetic – an international operation targeting criminals who used a mobile encryption service to try to evade detection.
  • 22 February: teams of local officers, led by Merseyside Police’s Protecting Vulnerable People unit travelled across Wirral, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Knowsley as part of Operation Cassia, a police operation to arrest people believed to be responsible for both recent and historical cases of domestic abuse. 10 people were arrested including two from Tranmere.

  • 21 February: Police secured a Closure Order of a house in Birkenhead following numerous reports of anti-social behaviour and criminality. Wirral Magistrate’s Court issued the order on Thursday 15 February for 29 Old Bidston Road. This followed numerous incidents of anti-social behaviour, drug dealing, and criminal activity at the address.

  • 12 February: a Wirral man has been recalled to prison after breaching the conditions of his licence. Bradley Bowe, 25, of no fixed abode, was arrested on Friday, February 9 following a stop check and was subsequently recalled to prison. Bowe was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2019 for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs in North Wales.

  • 7 February: a man from Wirral was jailed for six years for the supply of Class A drugs. James Byrne, 22, of Thorburn Road, New Ferry, was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday 1 February for being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine. Byrne was identified by Operation Toxic officers as part of an investigation into the supply of Class A drugs in the New Ferry and Woodchurch area of Wirral. Officers carried out a warrant on Thorburn Road in December 2022, where they arrested Byrne.

What the statistics say...

  • The Office for National Statistics reports that crime in Wirral in the year ending September 2023, was lower than average for the Merseyside force area and was the lowest of the five areas covered by Merseyside Police - with 86.74 recorded crimes for every 1,000 people.
  • And, in the three months ending September 2023, crime rates were down in Wirral and down in the Merseyside force area compared with the corresponding period in 2022.
  • In January 2024, 19,838 calls to 999 were answered in under 10 seconds or less - 91.9% of calls received.

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