CRACKDOWN: A police officer monitoring speeds in Bolton POLICE in Bolton remain committed in the fight to crack down on speeding. Last year Greater Manchester Police (GMP) declared Bolton was its biggest area of concern in the region for road safety. And the force said patrols would be stepped up in the town. In October 2020, Chief Inspector Matt Bailey-Smith of GMP’s Safer Transport Team, said: “Currently, Bolton is our highest area of ‘threat’ and is therefore subject to increasing deployments to look at issues of speed, anti-social use of vehicles and intelligence. “We recognise that many people drive carefully and stick to speed limits and we would like to thank them for doing so.”