Residents are being urged to speak out on a range of organised crimes including vice and exploitation, pop-up brothels and money-laundering.
Crimestoppers wants to hear from members of the public who live and work in Runcorn as it seeks to increase reporting levels in the town. An extensive list of crime types being targeted range from selling drugs and counterfeit goods, county lines drug supply including the use of young and vulnerable people, trading weapons, human trafficking, modern slavery, cannabis cultivation, and loan sharks
The independent charity said making Runcorn a safer place requires preventing crooks profiting from “the pain and misery they cause”, namely by providing information so they can be brought to book. A Crimestoppers spokesman said criminals have been preying on vulnerable residents due to the cost-of-living crisis by “tempting them to become involved with the offer of being able to pay off debts or heat their homes”.
