Police arrest more than 50 in town centre clampdown

MORE than 50 arrests were made in Huddersfield town centre in a fortnight as police took on various types of criminals.

- By ANDREW ROBINSON

The arrests were made in the first two weeks of September as part of the “surge of proactive policing” to reassure those using Huddersfield town centre, according to West Yorkshire Police.

Undercover and high visibility police operations to locate and lock up violent criminals have begun in both Huddersfield and Dewsbury. The aim is to reduce violent offending, including knife crime, in both town centres, as the nights draw in.

Plain clothes police officers in Huddersfield have now begun to patrol in crime ‘hotspots’ in Huddersfield town centre to “observe, identify and take action against offenders as well as lock up those who are wanted,” a police spokesman said.