Over £170,000 invested across Lancashire to tackle reoffending as total approaches half a million

Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has provided over £170,000 to help projects dedicated to making the county safer and tackle reoffending. Nine projects based across Lancashire have received grants of up to £25,000 for a variety of different schemes that ultimately engage offenders and their families, work with them in their areas and help integrate them back into the community. […]

Project helps former criminals stop offending after Commissioner’s investment

Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Clive Grunshaw has heard how funding from his fund dedicated to tackling reoffending and helping make sure those leaving the prison system get out of a life of crime, has supported a project helping ex-offenders reintegrate into the community. The joint project between Delphi Medical, Horizon Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service and Mulberry Community Project […]

Lancashire secures funding to tackle knife crime and serious violence

Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has secured almost £3m in Government funding to help tackle and prevent knife crime and serious violence across the county. Lancashire is one of 18 areas across the country to be allocated funding, with £1.82m from the Knife Crime Fund and £1.16m for the setting up and running of a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). The […]

Cost of Policing football matches could exceed £1m in Lancashire this season

PCC calls on MPs to support change in rules to cost of policing football matches As the new football season gets underway, Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Clive Grunshaw, has today written to all Lancashire MPs to seek support for a change in the rules surrounding the costs related to policing football matches. This follows new figures produced by Lancashire […]

Live chat launched to support victims of crime

Lancashire Victim Services, the local support service for victims of crime in the county, has launched a live chat which is now available on their website lancashirevictimservices.org. The live chat offers people a new way to find out about the support available and to get the help and advice they may need. Funded by Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw, […]

Commissioner urges residents to have their say on policing in Lancashire

Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw is asking residents for their views on policing priorities as demands on the service continue to grow. The Commissioner has today launched an online survey and announced a series of summer events to ask residents’ views on crime and policing in their area. These will continue to inform his Police and Crime Plan […]