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Category: Law & Order

ONS makes changes to the official Crime Survey to investigate historical abuse

The Crime Survey for England and Wales is a comprehensive research tool, which is conducted face-to-face. It has been carried out by the Office for National Statistics...

Mayor backs MPs’ indictment of justice system

Greater Manchester Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd has backed a parliamentary report highlighting huge failings in the criminal justice system. The...

Feeling a little horse? Pip, Countess and Harvey clop into retirement together

There were plenty of long faces as three of GMP’s oldest horses retired. There wasn’t a dry eye at as officers said goodbye to their four-legged partners Pip,...

First ‘legal high’ arrest made just hours after law changed

Police have arrested a man in Rochdale for supplying legal highs after nine people were hospitalised this week. Legal highs are psychoactive drugs which mimic the...

‘Legal Highs’ banned following public outcry

New legislation has come into force today, Thursday 26 May 2016, making the sale of New Psychoactive Substances, commonly known as ‘legal highs’ illegal. The...

Man who stamped on Swinton partner in violent attack jailed for 25 months

A man who viciously assaulted a woman in Swinton in August last year has been jailed for just over two years. George Roberts, 29, from Oldham, was arrested after police...

Warning: Annihilation legal high leaves man in coma

A 33-year-old man is in intensive care after collapsing while taking the legal high ‘Annihiliation’. Greater Manchester Police has issued an urgent warning...

GMP starts body camera roll out

Greater Manchester Police officers have started wearing video cameras on their uniforms as the roll out of body-worn video cameras begins. 191 officers in Trafford were...

Watch: A quarter of men think ‘sexting’ is not cheating

8% of Brits have ‘sexted’ a person (not their partner) in the last year Recent media coverage around Vernon Kay’s alleged sexting exploits with model, Rhian...

Independent Ethics Committee to examine Hillsborough inquest findings

Greater Manchester’s independent Ethics Committee for policing is to examine the significant ethical challenges the Hillsborough inquest has posed for the police...