Hundreds of gun crimes in West Yorkshire during pandemic
HUNDREDS of gun crimes took place across the county during the first year of the pandemic, figures have revealed.
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HUNDREDS of gun crimes took place across the county during the first year of the pandemic, figures have revealed.
Friday, 22 October 2021 Proceeds of Crime orders worth almost £400,000 have been granted by the courts against two people convicted following a drugs conspiracy investigation. At Bradford Crown Court yesterday (Thursday) Richard Brown and Julie Firth had orders totalling £380,000 and £19,000 served on them respectively by His Honour Judge Burn. Brown, aged 57, of Lincombe Drive in Gledhow, Leeds was jailed for ten years and three months in January 2018 after he pleaded to conspiring to supply cocaine.
The number of armed police responses in West Yorkshire fell last year but there were still two a day. Pic: PA THE number of incidents that armed police were called to in West Yorkshire over the past year fell by six per cent from a year earlier, the latest figures have revealed. The data, from the Home Office, revealed that armed officers in the county were called to an average of two incidents a day between April 2020 and March 2021. The 702 incidents they responded to was down from 746 in 2019-20, a fall of six per cent. West Yorkshire Police said the drop is down to wider efforts t...
THREE men who were arrested after Class A drugs were found when a car was stopped by police in Bradford have been released under investigation.
MORE than 25 people have been arrested and weapons, drugs and cash have been seized as part of a week-long crackdown on County Lines drug dealing.