A FLINTSHIRE police station has reopened as the base for a regional organised crime unit.

Saltney police station, which has been closed for a number of years, has opened as a new satellite office for the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit’s (NWROCU) Operations Team.

The new base on the North Wales and Cheshire border will provide a home for one of the new serious and organised crime task forces which have been created as part of the national police uplift programme and sees the NWROCU estate continuing its geographical footprint within its collaborative forces across the North West.

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North Wales Police Chief Constable Carl Foulkes and PCC’s Andy Dunbobbin (North Wales) and John Dwyer (Cheshire) together with ACC Jo Edwards from the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit officially opened the new satellite office at Saltney on Monday.

ACC Jo Edwards from the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit said: “The opening of Saltney Police station is a significant development in our plans to expand our estate across the North West. The NWROCU is a collaboration of police officers and staff from all six North West Police Forces, and we want to make sure we have got a footprint right across the North West region.

“Being accessible to the police forces and communities we serve is the heart of policing and a major priority for us.”

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John Dwyer, Police and Crime Commissioner for Cheshire, said: “Tackling organised crime is central to my Police and Crime Plan, so I’m delighted to see Saltney Police Station established as a base for the NWROCU.

“Criminals operating in organised crime groups bring misery to Cheshire’s communities, and having this new satellite office on our border means we’ll be able to work in partnership even more effectively to make our county and the entire North West a hostile environment for organised crime.”