direct to your inboxCops were potentially put at risk for over a year because Greater Manchester’s new police computer system failed to flag hundreds of addresses likely to contain firearms.An internal audit found markers for properties with licensed firearms certificates had not transferred over to the iOPS system when it launched in 2019 and more than 800 were still missing by the time the issue was identified a year later.That meant an officer could be ‘dispatched to an address where there are firearms present without an appropriate risk assessment being made’.GMP says the issue has since been rectified and stressed it only ever related to addresses with licensed firearms, also insisting that the information had remained available.
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