Daily Update

Good afternoon residents of Collyhurst and Monsall,

Today we have completed a few welfare visits with our neighbourhood police officers, at addresses where we believed the tenants may have been victims of cookcooing (Cuckooing is when Organised Crime Groups (OCGs) or perpetrators take over properties through force, deceit or coercion. It is often included with County Lines activity, occurring when gangs take control over a vulnerable adult's address, as a site to store/supply/produce drugs from. We have also seen reports of individuals holding the properties for pop-up brothels, storing weapons or other illicit and unwanted activity. Gangs will do this in order to avoid Police detection themselves), these visits took place in Monsall and Harpurhey, on going work will be conducted to help protect any vulnerable people and bring the offenders to justice.

We were lucky enough to be in a police vehicle today and out of the cold and rain, thanks to being in a car we covered a lot of ground and checked all the nooks and crannies.

Many thanks

Jo and Emma