A POLICE inspector has described the challenges and situations his officers faced during the course of a busy weekend.

Inspector Luke Hughes of the Wrexham City police team confirmed Saturday and Sunday saw 115 calls for service, with incidents ranging from social issues, welfare concerns and anti-social behaviour to drink driving, theft, threats, assault, breach of the peace and drunk and disorderly.

He said: "Crime certainly seems to be affected by the weather - bad guys don’t like to get wet and usually you will see a marked drop in theft and anti-social behaviour. 

"Conversely, out comes the sun and sadly we see excess consumption of alcohol and all the fallout from that.

"Hot weather also leads to open windows and as we saw last week, windows make a good alternative to a door given the opportunity.

"That said it was a pleasant weekend. I’m certainly pleased to report that the Welsh Guard Parade went well - very well attended and suitably poignant. 

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"I laid a wreath on behalf of North Wales Police, which has many ex guardsmen; some present on the day.

"Also on Saturday, we had the Midnight Walk which went well, again well attended and a great atmosphere, really showing the strength of community spirit in the area. Well done all.

"As for the weekends incidents; a few frustrating, some challenging but all important to those affected and we truly hope we provided the best service we can.

"Sadly violence does occur in the town on the weekend, as it does in most large towns and cities.

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"We have had a few incidents on Friday and Saturday night, some resulting in injury others more public order related.

"I certainly make a point of following up all these incidents; we look to identify repeat offenders and then place robust bail conditions preventing them having access to the town at night or drinking in licensed premises."

Inspector Hughes said there were also a few collisions over the weekend, none of which resulted in serious injury but a few of which will receive "extra scrutiny" from officers.

He added that while it is not a regular occurrence, a male was arrested on Saturday evening and was found to be in possession of a knife.

Insp Hughes added: "It appears to me that this is his first offence and he is quite young, we will look to do some educational work around this rather than move straight to prosecution as this could seriously affect his future. 

"The matter now sits with the Youth offending team.

"I'm raising this to highlight the positive disruption taking place, so please don’t think this is a regular occurrence. The stopping is, but the finding of such item is not."