Met Office forecasts predict snow to drop across Greater Manchester next week as freezing winds sweep across the country.
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GMP are putting their faith in a "New Tricks" approach to bolstering the thin blue line. Just like in the long-running TV drama the force is hoping the return of retired officers with nous acquired by years of service will help crimefighting.
In the show, which ran for 12 years and starred Amanda Redman, James Bolam, Alun Armstrong, and Dennis Waterman, old cops were brought back to investigate unsolved crime. GMP have previously done the same to help with its Cold Case Unit and support for the Major Incident Team.
But now the force has recruited thirty former officers, who will be used across several departments. One returning officer is Detective Chief Inspector Lee Hopwood, who spent almost 30 years at GMP in Rochdale and Oldham, and last worked in counter-terrorism.
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He will be taking up a new role in GMP’s Investigations Inspection Team to work in the background and advise on ongoing investigations. DCI Hopwood, 52, who originally joined the force in 1992, said: “I spent 29-and-a-half years at GMP and wasn’t really ready to go, and I returned within a month as a civilian to teach student detectives. I did that for a year but when I saw the opportunity to return to the force, I jumped at it. All of the returning officers bring a huge amount of experience, experience that would be lost otherwise.”
A group of 15 officers with a combined service of more than 400 years were brought back into the force this month. The group was made up of nine PCs, five sergeants and a detective chief inspector with previous experience including CID, firearms, child protection and roads policing.
GMP currently 7,942 serving police
Met Office forecasts predict snow to drop across Greater Manchester next week as freezing winds sweep across the country.
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