Cleveland police to get £2m extra to tackle serious crime in Middlesbrough
Cash announced after horror car crash that killed two police officers and house fire in which woman and young girl died Cleveland’s police force is to receive a £2m funding boost to tackle serious crime, after the home secretary said successive high-profile tragedies in the Middlesbrough area had led to a “sense of disquiet” in the community. Shabana Mahmood and the prime minister, Andy Burnham, paid tribute in parliament on Tuesday to police constables Matthew Blades and Tom Clough, who were killed when a Volkswagen Passat travelling on the wrong side of the A66 dual carriageway collided head-on with their marked response vehicle. Five young men travelling in the Passat, which had earlier been pursued by different police, also died in the 22 August incident. Cleveland police said the five occupants – Cole Worthy, 17, Theo Rae, 17, Makai Saddington, 18, Michael Robert Cahill, 23, and Jakub Matusiak, 23 – may have had links to “serious organised criminal activity”.
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