It has been ten weeks since Greater Manchester’s new chief of police was sworn in to perform an unenviable task. Stephen Watson’s job is to fix the country’s second biggest police force, one that had been steadily slipping backwards over several years.
Its high-profile problems have ranged from deteriorating inspection reports to an exodus of officers, a calamitous computer system, increasingly furious whistleblowing and, ultimately, the letting down of victims, as well as a series of damning criticisms in court.
Only last month, it emerged that GMP had given incorrect information to an initial inquiry into the response to the Manchester Arena attack.
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