Manchester Chief Constable finds bottle to speak out

I said in a letter to Gordon Marsden MP (Blackpool South) some ten years ago that the political correctness route was hiding the inadequacies of clear thinking with regards to law and disorder. A decade before the penny dropped on the Chief Constable of Manchester.

The full statement by the CC is well worth reading.

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Peter Fahy: Manchester would have been spared riots 'if London had been under control sooner'

Greater Manchester Police chief constable Peter Fahy has risked the wrath of colleagues in London after he suggested Manchester could have been spared the August riots if police in the capital had acted sooner.

Mr Fahy told BBC Panorama that copycat violence broke out after people saw rioters were "getting away with" their behaviour in the capital.

He said: "A certain group of people saw what was happening in London and decided they seemed to be getting away with it.

"The authorities weren't in control and they decided they wanted their opportunity."

He told the BBC One programme he did not regret the decision to send 100 officers from Greater Manchester Police to help deal with the situation in London.

"We knew what was absolutely critical was that there needed to be control of London. Because that was just creating more and more copycat violence up here." Read more at menmedia.co.uk

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