The highest number of burglaries in Liverpool City Region have been identified in just half a dozen streets in a single city ward.
An average of a burglary every four and a half days is committed across six streets in the Picton ward area of Liverpool according to Merseyside Police data. In a bid to reserve this troubling statistic, Liverpool Council is to invest more than £370,000 in Police and Crime Commissioner funding it has received under the Safer Streets programme.
After working alongside the region’s police force to identify the need for intervention, the city council is to make a financial contribution to install new street lighting, improvement to alley gates, new communal bins and property marking equipment as it launches a dedicated education and communications campaign in a bid to curb the number of crimes across six identified streets. The locations identified for intervention include Cranborne Road, Salisbury Road, Alderson Road, Langton Road, Grosvenor Road and Arundel Avenue.
