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Commercial Street in Newport city centre, shops beneath Victorian shopfronts and a construction crane over the rooftops. Photo: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newport_-_Commercial_Street.jpg)

A second person is jailed under Operation Krypton in Newport. Gwent Police have printed the same 200-arrest total three times in four days

Swansea Civic Centre. Photo: Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph (geograph.org.uk/photo/7384810) and Wikimedia Commons

Six people are jailed for a total of 31 years and 10 months after Operation Eagle, the South Wales Police investigation into vehicle theft and drug supply in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot

South Wales Police says eight people have been sentenced after an investigation into drug supply, organised vehicle theft and related fraud in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. Six were jailed for terms totalling 31 years and 10 months, and two sentences were suspended. Vehicle theft is one of the offences Swansea most rarely charges anyone for: 3.3 per cent of the cases police closed in the year to July.

Tue 8 Sept, 07:23

Queen Street in Cardiff city centre at night, the pedestrianised shopping strip inside the one mile circle Cover counts for the city. Photo: Stefan Oemisch (Germany), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Nation · Recorded crime

Welsh police recorded 31,031 crimes in July, the highest July since at least 2020

These are crimes police wrote down, not crimes committed. The count rose 16 per cent from June, where the five earlier June to July moves in the archive ran from 0.3 per cent to 6.7. Violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order carry three quarters of the rise on last July. Dyfed-Powys Police is the one force of four that did not rise, four crimes down on last July.

Mon 7 Sept, 10:10

Cardiff Crown Court, where Liam McDonald was sentenced on 4 September 2026. Photo: DaHuzyBru, September 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Brief · Crime

Car thief who took two cars in nineteen days of July is jailed for a year and nine months

Two cars and two shops between 8 and 27 July brought Liam McDonald a 91-week sentence, a year and nine months, at Cardiff Crown Court on 4 September, and a three-year driving ban. Within a mile of the city centre, 1,006 of the 1,097 vehicle crime cases South Wales Police closed in the year to July ended with nobody identified at all.

Sun 6 Sept, 00:22

A second person is jailed under Operation Krypton in Newport. Gwent Police have printed the same 200-arrest total three times in four days

Six people are jailed for a total of 31 years and 10 months after Operation Eagle, the South Wales Police investigation into vehicle theft and drug supply in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot

Welsh police recorded 31,031 crimes in July, the highest July since at least 2020

Car thief who took two cars in nineteen days of July is jailed for a year and nine months

Earlier

North Wales Police charged in three of five child exploitation investigations, and in 38 of 432 obscene publications ones

Gwent Police report 200 arrests in Newport since July. In the year to July, one closed burglary case in seven ended in a charge

Newport recorded 971 crimes in June, the most in a year. One violent crime in 17 ended in a charge