British Transport Police chief defends officer numbers on duty on night of Manchester Arena terror bombing

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direct to your inboxA police chief has defended the number of officers on duty at the Victoria station complex on the night of the Ariana Grande concert bomb attack at Manchester Arena.Michelle Wedderburn, a British Transport Police Inspector, gave evidence on day 43 of the public inquiry into the atrocity, which claimed 22 lives and left hundreds more injured on May 22, 2017.A tactical policing deployment plan, believed to have been written in 2014 but in force in 2017, was shown.It recommended that for large scale events at the Arena, like the Ariana Grande concert, a sergeant, four constables and two police community support officers (PCSOs) should be deployed.The document said the figures would 'enable officers to monitor the safe.