Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Greater Manchester’s new Chief Constable is scrapping a policy brought in by his predecessor and the mayor aimed at reminding the public of their own responsibilities - dubbing it ‘complete tosh’ and ‘patronising nonsense’.
Stephen Watson told the M.E.N. that the Citizens’ Contract, launched in October 2018, effectively told the public ‘can you just stop troubling us, because we're really busy and you just don't understand how hard it is for us’.
He will be axing it and launching a wide-ranging public consultation instead, in order to inform what officers are needed where. READ MORE: 'GMP had lost its way': how a new Chief Constable plans to reawaken the
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