Overview
- Merseyside Police reported 37 arrests during Safer Business Action Week, with operations focused on hotspot areas and prolific offenders.
- Liverpool city centre saw eight arrests, 24 stop searches and five community resolutions for drug offences during targeted patrols with security partners.
- In Wirral, officers made two arrests, remanded a repeat offender to prison and conducted an open‑land search linked to stolen goods.
- Dorset Police recorded 13 arrests across the week, including two suspected shoplifters in Dorchester with over £500 in suspected stolen goods recovered.
- A Poole joint operation produced one arrest, several Section 35 dispersal notices and out‑of‑court disposals, as forces and partners worked under the NBCC‑led initiative reported as running Nov 10–14 or Nov 10–16.