The Deputy Chief Constable for Cheshire Constabulary, Chris Armitt was born in Crewe and grew up in South Cheshire - leaving the town when he was 16 to join the army.

DCC Armitt has had an extensive police career, joining Merseyside Police in 1989 and working on the force for 26 years.

The Deputy Chief Constable has been a police officer for 33 years. He came back to his home county with the Cheshire force in 2021, the only force he was interested in working for after after his long career.

Mr Armitt sees it as a return home with lots of his family living in Crewe and the Cheshire area.

DCC Armitt was an avid Crewe Alex supporter during his early teens. Police at Crewe Alex FC (Ryan Parker).

His father was a police officer for Crewe and Chester and his mother was a district nurse at Crewe's Leighton Hospital.

Eight months back into working in Cheshire, DCC Armitt exclusively tells Nub News how Cheshire police see the town from their view:

I was born in Crewe and was an avid Crewe Alex supporter in my early teens, studying at Shavington High School - just a short walk away from my house.

For crime, Crewe is an interesting one. Having grown up close to the town living in Shavington, just two to three miles outside the centre, I wasn't necessarily aware of how challenging a policing environment Crewe can sometimes be. 

It can be quite violent, you've got a fair bit of violence around the night-time economy. 

Our officers there work hard to ensure that doesn't get out of hand.

It's quite a mixed community in Crewe.

You've got some people who've been here for many generations and then there's been some Polish migration - much of which is now very settled in the town.

DCC Armitt studied Shavington High School, Rope Lane (Shavington Academy).

We've got a number of officers in Cheshire Constabulary who come from families that migrated to the Crewe area from Poland, then they've been born here.

Crewe is quite a challenging environment. The people are generally supportive of the police.

It's certainly by no means the sprawling inner city and doesn't present those problems - but it's it's no soft touch either.

I think officers who work in Crewe are very proud of working there - they do very much identify with the town

There's an awful lot of the officers who work in Crewe and live in Crewe, Nantwich, Shavington and places like that. They're always kept busy.

DCC Armitt spoke to Nub News at The Cheshire Constabulary Headquarters, Winsford on May 4.

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