More people were arrested in Oldham in October than in any other month in the past two years, the borough’s new top cop has said.
Chief Superintendent Chris Bowen, who recently transferred from West Yorkshire Police, addressed a meeting of the full council on Wednesday night.
He has been appointed as one of seven new district commanders as part of the new Chief Constable Stephen Watson’s overhaul of local policing in Greater Manchester. READ MORE : Man who attacked woman and wrongly accused her of child abduction spared jail 'by skin of his teeth' Chief Constable Watson has vowed to turn GMP around following a series of scathing reports by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.
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