Leeds police in bid to catch thieves red-handed

POLICE in the City and Holbeck Division of Leeds are taking part in an operation aimed at reducing thefts and house burglaries by catching criminals in the act.

Operation Delicacy involves officers carrying out high-visibility and plain-clothes patrols in estates, along with support from roads policing officers who cover the main arterial routes into the local areas to “head off” travelling criminals.

Two nights were particularly successful, with 10 men arrested.

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Officers arrested three men aged 18, 20 and 22 on suspicion of conspiracy to commit burglary near an address on Cardinal Square, Beeston.

They are in custody as are another trio arrested on suspicion of going equipped for theft.

Officers received a report of people entering gardens in the Old Run Road area of Belle Isle, and two men aged 34 and 23 and a 16-year-old male were arrested.

Four teenagers were arrested on Willowdale, near the St George Estate in Middleton, after a man was seen peering onto St George’s Road by patrolling officers.

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The four males, aged 17, 16, and two aged 15, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit burglary.

The patrols will continue throughout the coming weeks across the south Leeds area.

Detective Inspector Joanne Morgan, of City and Holbeck CID, said: “We are committed to making sure burglars and thieves have no room to breathe in south Leeds communities, and information from the public is crucial to catching criminals in the act.”

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