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GMP brings in dozens of cops to bolster the 999 call handling department over the 'very busy' summer

They will boost call answering times until civilian workers are trained and installed in September

Manchester Evening News

Chief constable makes riot policing compulsory for all cops

Officers had been reluctant to volunteer for public order training - but Stephen Watson said: "It's important if you are a police officer you do the things that police officers need to do."

Manchester Evening News

Chief Constable sees 'green shoots' of recovery as GMP battles to come out of special measures

The force has halved the time it takes to answer the most serious 999 calls

Manchester Evening News

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Schoolgirl raped at knifepoint during sleepover told by Greater Manchester Police officer 'leave it alone, get on with your life', lawsuit claims

Claim submitted to chief constable Stephen Watson

Manchester Evening News

Oldham Pride bosses claim GMP have banned rainbow Pride police car at event due to 'hate crime' concerns

"Decisions like this seem counterintuitive and to drag policing backwards into its hard-line, unpassionate past'

Manchester Evening News

Belief that children being sexually exploited were 'troublesome' lay at the heart of authorities failure to protect them, leaders admit

The acknowledgement over attitudes towards victims of abuse was made at a press conference on Monday announcing the findings of a damning review into child sexual explotiation (CSE) in Oldham.

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: 'No excuses' for failure to protect sexually exploited children in Oldham

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Oldham grooming gangs’ victims receive apologies over authorities’ failures

A report found police and the local council failed to protect some youngsters from sexual exploitation.

The Independent UK

The Northern Agenda: North's latest grooming bombshell

Oldham follows in the footsteps of Rotherham, Rochdale and Keighley

Manchester Evening News

‘Serious failings’ left children exposed to abuse in Oldham, finds damning review

Report singles out failings by police and council and suggests senior officials may have misled MPs

The Guardian - UK

GMP chief welcomes plans to combat racism - after report finds black people living in region nearly six times more likely to be stopped and searched

The Police Race Action plan has been designed to transform the police into an 'institutionally anti-racist organisation'

Manchester Evening News

Greater Manchester 'has 176 gangs' - almost a quarter have access to guns

A new crime-busting strategy has been launched by Greater Manchester Police to tackle criminal gangs

Manchester Evening News

The Saipan dice roll - the day Roy Keane headed home and Ireland went to the World Cup

What began as a trip that felt like a lottery win quickly descended into a nightmare, and not just for the two main protagonists in Ireland's civil war, Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy

Irish Mirror

Greater Manchester police ‘failed children in the past’, says chief constable

Stephen Watson says force had lacked professional curiosity when it came to young victims of grooming gangs

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Why GMP's troubled iOPS computer system could stay in place for another 18 months

"Unfortunately with these things you can't just switch it off and plug something new in"

Manchester Evening News

Greater Manchester Police chief admits force 'were borderline incompetent over Rochdale grooming gangs'

Stephen Watson acknowledged that his predecessors had "failed" children in the past

The Guardian - UK

Rochdale victim: ‘I was groomed at 14, then the courts came for my children’

Her evidence helped put abusers behind bars, yet ‘Amber’ was vilified by the authorities and says her torment will never end

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham issues statement after GMP apologise to three Rochdale grooming gang victims

"There is no doubt that GMP did fail victims and survivors"

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The Independent UK

Women sexually abused by Rochdale grooming gangs win ‘historic victory’ as police apologise for failings

‘I don’t know if I believe that Greater Manchester Police have really changed their ways as they say they have, but I’m happy that they’ve taken into account their failings,’ says victim

The Guardian - UK

GMP police chief apologises to Rochdale grooming gang victims

Chief constable Stephen Watson said the three women, who have received ‘substantial’ damages, were let down

The Independent UK

Victims of Rochdale grooming gangs win apology and damages from police

Their lawyers claimed Greater Manchester Police breached their human rights by not doing more to protect them.

Manchester Evening News

Greater Manchester faces new drugs crisis as patients living in agony wait years for surgery, doctors warn

'It's a new addiction and it has become a crutch for a lot of people to get through their lives'

Liverpool Echo

Police 'willing to step in' to help at Manchester Airport - but won't handle baggage

The airport has been dogged by chaotic scenes over the past few weeks

Manchester Evening News

GMP's improving 'basics', policing minister says, but recognises there's more work to do

Kit Malthouse was speaking from a cannabis farm in Blackley

Manchester Evening News

GMP 'willing to step in to do whatever we can' to solve Manchester Airport woes - but not baggage handling

Chief Constable Stephen Watson ruled out officers ‘doing baggage handling type tasks’, though

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