Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Greater Manchester's new chief constable Stephen Watson thought he was destined for a career in the Royal Navy, like his father and grandfather before him.
But a chance encounter encounter with a couple of bobbies in Prestwich changed his mind, and now he leads the largest police force in England outside London.
And already he has fired the first broadsides of his tenure, making local policing the centre of everything the force does as he charts GMP's way through stormy waters ahead.
The force - still officially in special measures - is recruiting another assistant chief constable (ACC) who, together with another ACC already in post, will be given the new
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