Why GMP's battle back from the brink could depend on one of these people
direct to your inboxWanted: A top cop to rescue the reputation of a massive police force from a string of high-profile disasters.When mayor Andy Burnham office places an ad on the recruitment pages for a new chief constable of GMP later this month, it probably won't use such words, but not many would argue with him if it did.The force is at its lowest point.Former chief constable Ian Hopkins was forced out of his £200,000-a-year job just before Christmas following a series of calamities, most tellingly that government inspectors had been through the books and estimated 80,000 crimes hadn't been recorded in one year.The force's new computer system, Integrated Operational Policing System (iOPS), has been dogged by problems since it was