More than 20 arrests have been made and £250,000 worth of stolen property has been recovered in a crackdown in Bolton . Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were out in force as part of its Operation AVRO scheme, which descends on different boroughs in a day of action each month. AVRO targets a range of crimes such as drug-dealing, traffic offences and anti-social behaviour.
Officers, who were deployed at key strategic Bolton locations, found cannabis farms , arrested "wanted criminals" and issued traffic orders across the course of the day. (Image: Greater Manchester Police) There were around 80 to 100 officers sent to carry out different tasks across the borough. A raid was carried out in Farnworth at 6.
45am on a property suspected to have Class A drugs inside. (Image: Leah Collins) Later in the morning a unit was raided by officers on Chulsey Street in Bolton , which was thought to contain dozens of suspected stolen power washers. The unit, which contained an array of cosmetics, cleaning products, gaming equipment and unlabelled boxes, was flagged to police in the West Midlands after a test buy of the power washers came back listed as stolen.
(Image: Leah Collins) Speaking to The Bolton News , DC Duncan McNulty said: “Operation AVRO works to reinforce faith in the police from the community. “It offers the opportunity to get deep into the criminality going on in the community. “The force acts on information provided to us by the community.
This is why Operation AVRO is so.