As part of our efforts to tackle criminality across our area, Operation Shield is back for another intensification period.

Our force-wide proactive initiative, Operation Shield, has today (Monday 26 February) relaunched to continue the focus on clamping down on crime in hotspot locations with the aim of identifying and targeting the most harmful criminals who prey on our communities.

Over the next four weeks, officers across our force area will be ramping up their work to detect criminals involved in a range of crimes, including burglary and antisocial behaviour. They will also continue to focus on protecting vulnerable people, by targeting sexual offenders and perpetrators of domestic abuse.

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