Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The police officer who led the initial response to the Manchester Arena bombing described the first hour as 'absolute chaos'.
Based at a control room in south London, Insp Ben Dawson was the force incident manager for British Transport Police (BTP) when suicide bomber detonated a huge improvised device in his backpack in the foyer of the arena in May 2017, killing 22 and injuring hundreds more.
BTP had responsibility for policing the arena and Victoria station as they are on railway property. After assigning himself 'silver' commander in charge of the incident, Insp Dawson described how he repeatedly tried but failed to reach his counterpart in Greater
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