A NEW scheme is aiming to offer advice to drug-related offenders and tackle the causes of crime throughout Trafford.

The Government-backed initiative has been introduced across the whole of Greater Manchester and will see drug workers working in tandem with bobbies at local stations as part of a multi-million pound scheme.

And it is hoped that it can help to get to the roots of crime after pilot schemes in other parts of the country achieved remarkable results.

Two drugs referral workers have been appointed in Trafford to work at both Stretford and Altrincham stations.

And police hope that the multi-agency approach involving themselves, the health service and council workers will prove beneficial to all when it starts next Tuesday.

DRUG referral workers Keith Daley (left) and Anne Burgess with police officer Laurence Rumley.

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