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Inside Greater Manchester Police's culture of denial, obfuscation and secrecy

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When Britain’s second largest police force was placed into special measures last December, it represented the single biggest public service failure to hit Greater Manchester in years.

Yet by the time the crisis at GMP officially started emerging last year, the warning lights had long been flashing, for victims, external organisations and many rank-and-file police officers themselves.

For while the headline criticism of the force was that it missed 80,000 crimes last year, according to the policing inspectorate, behind that sat something harder to measure: a broken culture.

It is something impossible to count in a spreadsheet, or to list in a league table; hard to trace its history or arrest its development.

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