A senior police officer, among those responsible for the initial response to the Manchester Arena bombing, defied official guidance to stay away from the scene of the attack, the inquiry into the atrocity has heard.
Arif Nawaz, then an acting superintendent who was GMP's night duty 'silver' commander when the bomb went off, said his first instinct was to head to the scene of devastation but he then decided against it.
Instead he remained in GMP's headquarters to run the 'unarmed' police response from there amid fears of a continuing terror attack.
At the independent inquiry into the atrocity, the officer admitted he had not read official GMP guidance for 'night silver' commanders stipulating they should attend all major incidents when on
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