The response of Greater Manchester Police on the night of the May 2017 Arena bombing was 'grossly deficient', a QC representing bereaved families has told the continuing inquiry into the atrocity.
Key staff received no marauding terror attack or major incident training prior to the suicide bombing, he said. Bosses were to blame for 'institutional failings' while there was a 'total failure' to set up a rendezvous point at the scene for commanders of all the emergency services until it was too late which meant firefighters took more than two hours to arrive, the inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders was told.
The force also failed to learn lessons from a major training drill carried out at the Trafford Centre months earlier which highlighted the
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