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celeste

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GMP allege force failing crime victims
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Greater Manchester Police officers allege force failing crime victims - BBC News



"I wouldn't feel confident reporting a crime to my own police force."

These are the words of a serving Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer who has chosen to speak to BBC Newsnight to allege serious failings within England's second largest force.

A number of officers, past and present, have also come forward to voice similar concerns.

In December, [size=inherit]Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found GMP failed to record about 80,000 crimes in a 12-month period and closed cases without proper investigation.

Former chief constable Ian Hopkins resigned[/size] after the force was placed in special measures, and successor Stephen Watson told a recent press conference vital improvements would be made rapidly.

"That is not to say GMP is a failing force," he said. "It is a force comprised of many thousands [of] genuinely hard-working, committed, brave, talented, professional people."
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Re: GMP allege force failing crime victims
« Reply #1 on: 10:07:37, 29/06/21 »
So which are the best performing police forces in the UK,  maybe they could take a leaf out of their book :-\
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Re: GMP allege force failing crime victims
« Reply #2 on: 10:23:07, 29/06/21 »
Maybe burnham could sort things out  ::)

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« Reply #3 on: 12:14:55, 29/06/21 »
Greater Manchester Police chief apologises to rape victim over failures - BBC News




A chief constable has apologised to a rape victim after his force failed to arrest the suspect she had identified.

The victim's mother described Greater Manchester Police (GMP) as "absolutely incompetent" over its failures to act.

She said her daughter had also suffered because four different detectives had led the investigation.

New GMP Chief Constable Stephen Watson admitted the victim, from Rochdale, had been let down by the investigation and said it "simply isn't good enough".

The Maggie Oliver Foundation, which helps victims of sexual violence, has told BBC Newsnight that it knows of at least 15 young women who have been turned away by GMP or put off reporting the crime by the force's response.

Mr Watson denied there was a "systemic failings at the very heart of our process" and said resources had been pumped into a new central Child Sexual Exploitation team.

GMP was recently put in special measures[/size] after it failed to investigate 80,000 crimes in a 12-month period.
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« Reply #5 on: 14:33:48, 02/07/21 »
 A hard working woman that is community minded, robbed by the scum, and the fuzz can't be arsed to send a single plod to see her and attempt at least to investigate properly,


https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/miles-platting-police-theft-newsagents-20949884


 You need to be doing better Mr Watson, or were your words on investigating and catching criminals just the usual guff?  :-\

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« Reply #6 on: 14:39:00, 02/07/21 »
She should have said it was a racial robbery , they’d have been around before she’d put the phone down

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Re: GMP allege force failing crime victims
« Reply #7 on: 22:53:38, 02/07/21 »
Aren't they under 'special measures'?
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