Police attend suspected armed robbery (From Warrington Guardian)

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  mattdurcs wrote:
  Folks,
  I am the Detective Inspector in the CID at Warrington and would like to thank the obvious support from the readers. I will also listen to the critism, assess whether it is justified and if there are improvements to be made I will ensure we will do what we can to improve. Unfortunately i may not be in a position to respond further due to current work commitments within the department over this weekend...... As you are aware a robbery occurred at the Nat West Bank in Stockton Heath on Friday afternoon. I have got a dedicated team of officers working around the clock trying to progress this investigation. Several female workers within the bank were confronted by masked men who threatened them with a sledge hammer before stealing cash and i am sure you will understand the victims are extremely shook up and upset following this unpleasant incident. Numerous persons have thankfully come forward and are being spoken to by my officers but i am sure there are others out there who had a good look at the offenders and may have even captured footage of the incident on their phones. I would appeal to those persons to please contact the Police on phone 101 and i will endeavour to arrange for a detective officer to speak with you asap as we are determined to catch these offenders. It would be inappropriate for me to respond in detail to many of the responses i have read whilst looking for information on the robbers but i will say that your local police are working extremely hard in improving the service we provide whilst having to do so with far less financial support - which will be the same in other public and private organisations across the country and we will not be looking to make excuses or generate sympathy but aiming at making improvements. There will be occassions when we have to priorise the more serious offences but will try and respond effectively to all reasonable requests. I currently run a dedicated team of officers who target house burglars and do so extremely well and we are the envy of departments throughout the region and even country but there will be times when we make a mistake or could have improved something. When i was a young detective starting out on the Warrington burglary team in January 1995 we had over 350 burglaries that month and have progressed ever since. Last month there were approximately 40 offences - but 40 too many as far as i am concerned.... I am very proud of the work we have done over the years in targeting local and travelling burglars and protecting householders but i doubt that i have saved that many lives... Believe me - stopping and preventing people from driving too fast can be a little frustrating at times but it saves lives !!
  Thanks and please continue to assist us if you can...
  DI Matt Durcan.

  Believe me - stopping and preventing people from driving too fast can be a little frustrating at times but it saves lives !!Maybe sometimes,but be honest its all about the money money money."
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