Most wanted. Can you help identify them and make North West a safer place?
The faces of 40 people being hunted for serious crimes in the North West are being broadcast across Greater Manchester this week as the charity Crimestoppers marks 10 years of its Most Wanted online gallery.
Over 100,000 people have contacted the charity in Greater Manchester over the last 25 years.
From today a van fitted with large screens will be on tour visiting Manchester and 10 other busy locations.
The van will broadcast the faces of individuals wanted by GMP in connection with a variety of offences – including murder, sexual offences, burglary, robbery, and assault.The tour comes exactly 10 years after Crimestoppers’ Most Wanted online gallery was launched in the UK.
The launch in Manchester coincides with similar launches in London and Glasgow with Advans visiting other major cities.
To date, the Crimestoppers website has listed a total of 12,524 appeals – 3,589 of which have been arrested.
Crimestoppers’ Most Wanted was launched on November 17 2005 and was, at the time, the first national online source of wanted individuals in the UK.
The site initially provided photographs and descriptions of known suspects before expanding to include an ‘unknowns’ section of CCTV images.
The aim was, and still is today, to give members of the public the opportunity to give information about any of the suspects to Crimestoppers anonymously.
Today the Crimestoppers Most Wanted site is proving to be as popular as ever – receiving around 30,000 views every month from the public.
To see individuals wanted in your area visit https://crimestoppers-uk.org/most-wanted/