Cumbria police said its officers had made over 1,000 arrests in December.
It has released figures today to say it carried out 1,032 arrests and 794 stop and searches in the force’s festive crackdown.
A series of operations took place focusing on drink and drug driving, burglary prevention, violence against women and girls, domestic abuse, personal safety, retail crime and targeting wanted people.
In December:
- Police received calls for 8,128 incidents. Officers managed to respond to 92.8% of the 2,501 incidents graded as an emergency calls within the target response time. They also manged to attended 96.3% of the 1,780 incidents graded as a priority response within the target response time.
- Over £425,000 was seized from vehicles travelling Cumbria’s roads and 12kg of cannabis was also seized by officers.
- 68 burglaries were reported and 53 arrests have been made so far.
- 90 people were arrested in relation to domestic abuse.
- 67 people were arrested on suspicion of shoplifting,
- 20 people wanted for crimes were arrested – 11 on one day.
- Officers carried out 782 visits to licensed premises to help licensees to help keep their customers safe.
- Police stopped 1,800 drivers, tested 1,302 people for drink or drug driving and arrested 130 people – 70 for suspicion of driving while over the limit for drugs and 56 on suspicion of driving while over the limit for alcohol.
Assistant Chief Constable Dave Stalker said: “We increased the number of officers on patrol and on specific operations to ensure that we had sufficient resource to tackle criminality throughout the festive period.
“We are also continuing to appeal for information form the public on the whereabouts of individuals shared as part of our Wanted This Winter campaign.
“While we have located five out of the 12 individuals subject to this appeal, I would urge anyone with information on the whereabouts of the remaining seven individuals to please get in touch.”
