Chief Constable Stephen Watson answers questions from public
Chief Constable Stephen Watson was answering this questions this morning in the BBC Radio Manchester 'hotseat'.
He was asked questions on a range of subjects including anti-social behaviour, local policing, violent crime, policing of the roads and transport links, and iOPS.
Here are some of the answers given
Impact of COVID on staffing levels, he said: "They are holding up. We've a bit of nip-and-tuck here and there but for the most part, mercifully, we're in reasonably good shape and our plans are good in terms of where we stand."
When asked about violent crime, CC Watson said: "I think there's too much violent crime; I think there're too few people committing violent crime who've been brought to book and that's why we're committed to improving our outcomes and certainly increasing the number of people arrested."
CC Watson also spoke about recruitment: "We are embarked at the moment on probably the biggest recruitment drive in our recent history - we're probably going to be recruiting over 1000 people in the coming year. My encouragement to good, solid people with the right values who really want to get stuck in to criminality: GMP is a very, very good career option for you and we encourage your application."
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