GMP's ageing fleet of cars is to be replaced. The force, as reported in the Manchester Evening News, has had to hire cars recently due to the dire state of some of its vehicles.
Currently in special measures, GMP has had to send response officers out to crimes using lease cars as it ‘has not had the police vehicles to get out to jobs’, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Sykes, admitted last week. READ MORE: Police at scene after man shot in 'extremely distressing incident for the community' One officer told the MEN that two thirds of the cars on their division were off the road at one point a couple of months ago.
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