Jesse Lingard and Edinson Cavani have returned to Manchester United training ahead of the Premier League match at Burnley on Tuesday night.
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Greater Manchester Police was not providing the recommended hours of first aid training to its officers at the time of the Manchester Arena attack, the public inquiry into the atrocity was told.
The inquiry also heard that a new national triage system for medics and emergency services personnel to assess casualties with has been developed in the wake of the atrocity.
Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said Tuesday marked the end of evidence concerning 'the deeply complex and highly important issue of the adequacy of the emergency services response on the night of the Arena attack'.
Mr Greaney said between 2014 and 2020, GMP was 'not in compliance' with the licensing requirements of the College of Policing's 'first aid learning programme' - FALP.
He said GMP was 'not the only force' found to be non compliant.
Assistant chief constable Iain Raphael, a director for operational standards at the College of Policing, said the issue was 'highlighted to GMP on a number of occasions', but a 'locally-assessed policy decision' had been made.
GMP temporary assistant chief constable Wasim Chaudhry said it was a 'deliberate decision' to provide six hours of training on the first aid skills course, rather than the nine recommended by the Health and Safety Executive.
Giving evidence, he said they were not compliant with just 'module two' of FALP.
He agreed GMP's approach was 'always in accordance with the relevant legislation', but was a 'departure from the recommended time scales only'.
Matters that were 'mandated to be trained, were trained', Mr Chaudhry added.
He said it was 'a continuation of the training programme that had been taking place prior to 2013'.
Mr Chaudhry said the force was now 'fully compliant' and all GMP
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