Cops have gone undercover to tackle crime hotspots in Wigan and Leigh. They include a well-known nature reserve which is currently undergoing a £2.7m upgrade with a new visitor centre and cafe.
Pennington Flash is a 490-acre country park which sustains 230 bird species but it was on a list of locations targeted by police. In a post on social media, Greater Manchester Police said: "Officers from Wigan and Leigh have been engaged in a plain clothes operation for the last two nights and have actively been targeting areas known for drug dealing, ASB, burglaries and thefts in order to reduce and prevent offences of this nature in your communities.
On February 2nd and 3rd officers in plain clothes and plain vehicles have patrolled the areas of Pennington Flash Leigh, Railway Road Leigh, Parsonage Retail Park, Astley Park Tyldesley, Wigan Town Centre and bus station, Scholes Precinct, Clayhole Park Hindley, Danes Avenue Hindley and Platt Bridge.
