Police have increased patrols in a Sheffield suburb after growing concern of criminals taking over vulnerable people’s homes. Over the past two weeks, Sheffield North West Neighbourhood Policing Team has seized a quantity of drugs, cash and ammunition from a number of addresses in the Upperthorpe area of the city. It comes as part of an approach to tackle ‘cuckooing’ - a term to describe where people take over another person's house for criminal purposes. It takes its name from cuckoos who take... Read this story
