A former senior detective turned whistleblower has told an employment tribunal he warned senior officers about the dangers of a 'provocative' tactic of repeatedly visiting the family of Dale Cregan when he was a fugitive from the law in 2012.
Pete Jackson, 59, a retired former head of GMP's major incident team, has made a series of claims including that GMP was blighted by a 'rotten culture of cronyism' while still working at the force before retiring in February 2017 after 31 years in the police.
One allegation in his 226-page statement to an ongoing employment tribunal is that he, other officers and even a forensic psychologist had warned about the 'dangerous and misguided tactic' of repeated police visits to Cregan's family while he
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