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Good afternoon, Please find below this week’s City Centre policing update. The City Team have carried out a plain clothes operation targeting retail crime in the City. The aim was to deter and detect those coming to Chester to commit business crime.  This involved visits to several stores to liaise with security staff and was

THERE are just a handful of tickets remaining for a special event celebrating a Chester institution for more than two centuries. Former employees and shoppers are being encouraged to share their experiences of Browns of Chester this weekend. Cheshire Archives and the Grosvenor Museum have collections of materials and objects from the store and are

AN INDEPENDENT hotel in Chester has reopened its doors to the public this week. The Chester Townhouse, situated in Lower Bridge Street, within the Chester city walls and just a few steps away from the River Dee and The Groves reopened on Monday (February 12). It has undergone a significant £200,000 plus investment, with the entire

Cheshire West and Chester Council delivers libraries and museums services across the whole of the borough and is asking for residents’ views on these services. A consultation will launch on Monday 5 February for eight weeks, asking for feedback on a number of proposals on how they could operate in the future. The Council’s Cabinet

Cheshire West and Chester Council is asking people, including landowners, to suggest sites that might be available for development in the future as part of an evidence base consultation for a new Local Plan. The Council’s Cabinet on 10 January decided to prepare a new Local Plan under the new national system for plan-making that

Good afternoon, Please find below an update with regards the last two weeks. We continue to carry out high visibility patrolling under Operation Momentum where we are deploying both Chester Police Officers and officers from forcewide teams including Armed Response and Roads Crime Unit. We have carried out Project Servator deployments in the City and

Dear Resident, I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and I wish you all the best for 2024. As Commissioner, it’s my job to set the police budget. That means finding out from you about the issues you want the police to focus on and the level at which the police precept – the part of your

The Christmas policing operation continues, which complements the work being done as part of Op Momentum. You will see officers patrolling the City, who are also supported by plain clothes officers who are seeking to identify suspects to detect and deter criminal activity. I have authorised Dispersals to be in place over the weekends throughout