Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox When Stephen Watson finally takes his seat in his modest office on the fourth floor of GMP’s headquarters in Newton Heath, his in-tray will be bulging with files which may as well be unexploded bombs.
The dangerous ordnance on the desk will have strange acronyms plastered across them like HMICFRS and iOPS. But if anyone can diffuse them, it is Stephen Watson - who is taking over as the new chief constable of Greater Manchester Police - a measured, determined and eloquent copper with a record of turning around failing police forces.
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