Double arrest after about-turn by suspects spotted on street

Two suspects wanted in connection with a burglary were arrested after being spotted by eagle-eyed officers.

The Hucknall response team were out attending a separate report when something else grabbed their attention.

That’s after a man and woman, who were walking towards them along Spruce Grove, seemingly decided to turn around and go the other way after spotting police.  

This evasive behaviour immediately raised the suspicions of the officers, with this feeling then heightened further when the duo quickened their pace and started to run away.

At that point, the response and Operational Support officers in the vicinity snapped into action to conduct a quickfire area search, just after 12.30am on Tuesday (11 February).

This resulted in the two suspects being tracked down in rapid time, with the duo located crouching down in a nearby garden.

After catching up with the suspects, their details were run through the police system, at which point they were identified as being wanted in connection with a burglary.

This happened in the early hours of 13 January, with a car stolen from Penrose Court, Selston, after a set of keys, a purse and a jacket were taken from within a property.

The 40-year-old woman and 47-year-old man were subsequently both arrested on suspicion of burglary.

They were additionally arrested on suspicion of shop theft after being linked to multiple other offences too.

PC Ryan Shiel, of Nottinghamshire Police, said:

“This incident provided a great example of our policing teams instinctively working together to respond to something as it happened and provide an immediate result.

“Within seconds of these two people being spotted acting suspiciously and electing to run away, we’d tracked them down and discovered they had potential links to a break-in from the month before.  

“We hope this provides some reassurance to the community that our officers won’t hesitate to react to anything that doesn’t look quite right and that we’re always trying to solve outstanding offences when we’re out in the community.”