Top cop issues statement after young travellers turned away from Manchester

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A senior police officer has vowed to 'address' the concerns of parents from traveller communities who have criticised Greater Manchester Police for forcing children and young people to leave the city as part of a 'dispersal order' designed to prevent trouble.

Assistant Chief Constable Rick Jackson spoke out after the deputy mayor of Greater Manchester Kate Green asked GMP 'for a full report on the action taken'.

The force has been accused of a 'heavy-handed and discriminatory action' by a charity who said traveller children were stopped from attending the Christmas markets and 'forced' back onto trains out of the city.

The Traveller Movement, a national charity, said it was a 'shocking' and 'completely unacceptable'. READ MORE: Call for investigation after Gypsy and Traveller children 'blocked from Christmas markets and forced onto trains out of Manchester' Video widely shared on social media showed police herding young people into trains at Victoria railway station.