A retired cop submitted a formal complaint to Greater Manchester Police to report uniformed officers delivering birthday flowers to a neighbour.
Two uniformed officers turned up at the address in Lowton, near Leigh, in a GMP liveried BMW X3 and delivered flowers to a neighbour, a GMP call-handler, according to the retired officer.
He lodged a formal complaint alleging it was an inappropriate use of stretched police resources, he said. The retired cop, who the M.E.N.
has agreed not to name, said that in a response to the complaint, a sergeant told him the flowers were delivered by on-duty road policing unit cops based ten-miles away in Eccles and were to celebrate the birthday of a civilian colleague. READ MORE: 'Old enough to know better'...mass brawl broke out as row between feuding neighbours boiled over The sergeant is said to have told the retired officer the complaint would not be forwarded to the Professional Standards Branch of GMP for a formal investigation.
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