https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-55361452Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham should resign after the region's police force was placed in special measures, an MP has said.
Greater Manchester Police was placed into an "advanced phase" of monitoring on Thursday, after it failed to record 80,000 crimes in a year.
Conservative MP for Bolton West Chris Green said Mr Burnham, who oversees policing in the area, should step down.
The Labour mayor has not responded to the new steps by the police watchdog.
In a report last week, inspectors said GMP's service to victims of crime was a "serious cause of concern".
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services said about 220 crimes a day went unrecorded in the year up to June 2020
Following the publication of the report Mr Burnham apologised on behalf of GMP.
He said: "I would like to say sorry to all of the victims of crime who have found that the service has not been good enough. We owe it to them to improve and we will and we will do it fast."
Former GMP detective Maggie Oliver, who resigned over the way grooming cases in Rochdale were handled by the force, said she and two ex-colleagues had a meeting with Mr Burnham in 2018 to highlight "serious concerns" and were "treated with contempt".
She said they gave him 26 examples of victims being failed by GMP, including "people dying as a result of gross neglect" and he "basically slammed the door in our face".
There was a "culture of arrogance and cover-ups" at the force, she said, and a "radical overhaul" was needed.
Inspectors found officers prematurely closed some cases without a full investigation, while the force did not properly record evidence that victims supported the decisions, particularly in cases of domestic abuse.