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Cops are still using a ‘sub-optimal’ IT system that the Chief Constable said would be abandoned two years ago.

It was the night before Christmas when PC Helena Stone decided to get behind the wheel of a car, despite being too drunk to drive. Now, after being caught red-handed by her Greater Manchester Police colleagues, she has received a ban from driving and from ever serving in the police again.

A detective constable has left Greater Manchester Police in shame after he was found to have repeatedly messaged a 'vulnerable' victim of domestic abuse repeatedly while off duty.

Even to its many critics, the turnaround of Greater Manchester Police has been remarkable since the dark days of December 2020 when years of shocking failure ended in the sacking of the then chief constable Ian Hopkins.

A student police officer has been sacked after claiming to be sick whilst he was flying back from holiday. PC James Lanigan was due to attend a training course in June 2022 but was in fact flying back from Bulgaria, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.

A 'dishonest' Greater Manchester Police officer forged a GP sick note to get extra time off, a misconduct hearing was told. The chief constable of the force found Chloe Vose's actions amounted to gross misconduct and said she would have been sacked had she not already resigned.

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An entitled generation is used to never being told no and takes 'pride' in disrespecting authority, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police said. Stephen Watson said that his beat officers are often told 'you can't tell me not to do that' when police challenge 'unacceptable' behaviour.

Standing behind a sea of cardboard boxes, Umair Hussain looks out across the sun-drenched market square. For the past 15 years, this is where he has made his living, flogging everything from puzzle books to socks and toilet roll.

It's the steadfast policing operation that has transformed the face of Britain's 'counterfeit capital' in less than a year. Now, Greater Manchester's top cop is promising a similar effort to 'clean up' another of the city's most notorious spots.

An ex-cop has been banned from policing after subjecting her partner to 'sustained' abusive behaviour.

A former Greater Manchester Police officer who sexually assaulted a colleague on a drunken night out has been sacked from the force.

The head of Greater Manchester Police has called for more judges, magistrates courts and sitting court days amid a backlog of criminal cases.

More than a decade on, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the Rochdale child grooming scandal 'remains one of the greatest failures of our society'.

There is 'far too much knife crime' in Manchester Chief Constable Stephen Watson has claimed, in response to an M.E.N investigation suggesting it is a 'pandemic'.

A suspended senior Greater Manchester Police officer is facing allegations of sexual harassment, it has been confirmed.

If Greater Manchester Police was a Premier League football team, they're a few points adrift of safety and facing relegation. The board sacked Ian Hopkins mid-season and in came the policing equivalent of Sam Allardyce.

A woman raped at knifepoint during a sleepover 24 years ago has launched a lawsuit against Greater Manchester Police for their alleged failure to bring the suspect to justice. The victim, who we are calling "Susan" to protect her identity, was raped while staying at a friend's house in the Copster Hill area of Oldham in 1998, when she was a teenager.

Bosses at Oldham Pride claim they have been told that a Pride-themed police car has been banned from this weekend’s event due to concerns over ‘hate crime’.

A Greater Manchester Police officer has been sacked after he was convicted of stalking and harassment. The offences involved PC Gareth Walker's ex-wife and her new partner after their divorce in 2019, GMP's Chief Constable said as he chaired a misconduct hearing at force HQ.

A victim of the Rochdale grooming gang should receive a royal honour, the lawyer who brought the paedophiles to justice says. 'Girl A' should become an anonymous recipient of the Queen's Platinum Honours, Nazir Afzal, former chief prosecutor for the north of England, has said.

The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has admitted the force were "borderline incompetent" in their handling of the Rochdale grooming gangs.

GMP is ‘definitely on their way’ to being up-to-standard, the policing minister has said on a visit to Manchester today. The force has repeatedly been blasted by inspectors for its failings, leading to it being put in special measures in December 2020 .

People have leapt to the defence of rank-and-file cops despite the latest damning report into the performance of Greater Manchester Police.

Inspectors have issued a damning assessment of Greater Manchester Police, questioning the 'fatigued' force's ability to investigate crime and support victims.

More people were arrested in Oldham in October than in any other month in the past two years, the borough’s new top cop has said.

Tameside’s new top cop has pledged that criminals will be ‘afraid to commit crime’ under his leadership but admits public trust couldn’t be ‘any lower’ in policing currently.

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It has been ten weeks since Greater Manchester’s new chief of police was sworn in to perform an unenviable task.

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