The damning report into Greater Manchester Police that we were never meant to see

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Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Nine months ago, as Greater Manchester Police was reeling from being placed into special measures, the mayor’s office commissioned a review into its problems.

Consultants Pricewaterhousecoopers were brought in to conduct a root and branch review - partly to see whether its initial plans for improvement were fit for purpose, but also to identify what lay behind its failures.

The M.E.N. revealed many of its key findings in the Spring, after news leaked of its damning conclusions. But at the time, it was kept under wraps.

Since then a new Chief Constable, Stephen Watson, has taken up post and drawn up a longer term improvement plan - and on Friday, the full PwC