If you were out in the city centre over the weekend, chances are you’ll have found yourself at the centre of a huge police operation, even if you didn’t know it.
Operation Custodian, which deals with policing the night time economy, runs every Friday and Saturday night with one main goal - to try to make sure everyone has a good and safe night out.
It’s no small task in a city centre that sees 200,000 people moving in and out of it every single day. Add drugs and alcohol into the mix, and you get an unpredictable ‘mix’ of challenges - and officers say no two nights are the same.
The Manchester Evening News went out on a Friday night patrol with GMP to see the side of city centre nightlife most of us never think about.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk