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Greater Manchester Police ("GMP") is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, in North West England. The Force headquarters is at Chester House in Manchester. The Force was formed in 1974 after leaving the Lancashire Constabulary and amalgamating with Manchester and Salford Police and certain areas of Lancashire and Cheshire counties.
The Force is currently headed by the Chief Constable, Michael J. Todd, and each division is headed by a Chief Superintendent who is known as the divisional commander. Under proposals made by the Home Secretary on February 6, 2006, which proposed the mergers of many other forces, Greater Manchester would stay as a standalone strategic police force.[2] The Force also has its own newspaper and is distributed to thousands of officers, making "The Brief" one of the largest in circulation. Each 20 page issue has a mix of news about police initiatives, policies and crime successes, in-depth articles on specialist units, social and sports news, as well as regular features.
Uniform and equipment
Divisions & DepartmentsGreater Manchester Police is split into a number of geographical divisions, each corresponding to a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester (except for Manchester itself which has 3 divisions), which provide local patrols and investigate crime:
GMP in partnership with project investors Equion Facilities Management (a division of John Laing plc) has recently been given 17 brand new facilities to act as Police Stations across the Greater Manchester area. In light of these changes, certain Police Stations have been replaced by their newer counter-parts. In addition, the S, V and X departments provide specialist support forcewide, e.g. the air support unit (callsign "India 99") flying a McDonnell Douglas MD902 Exploer helicopter, which is of NOTAR design (NOTAR stands for NO TAil Rotor (capitals in previous are deliberate)) (based at Barton Aerodrome), and a Britten-Norman BN-2B-26 Islander fixed-wing aircraft (callsign "India 66", presently based at Manchester Airport but will be relocated to Barton if and when a hard runway is constructed there), traffic and motorway patrol units, firearms units, police dogs, communications services, as well units specialising in serious crime and major incidents. GMP is also responsible for policing Manchester Airport. During the 1990s, GMP had one of the worst rates of car crime in the UK. A specialist unit was setup in the mid 90s and has operated ever since, going by the callsign "sierra" or T.A.S.U, they operate high performance pursuit vehicles that can keep up to most of today's cars on the road. Car crime has halved since the early 90's partly due to this unit. The force also has an Anti-Terrorism Unit, which sits in Special Branch and has carried out several operations since being formed in April 2005. Tactical Aid UnitOfficers, as in the rest of the United Kingdom, are not routinely armed, although the force does have a specialised department of armed response teams (known as the Tactical Aid Unit), who drive vehicles called Armed Response Vehicles (ARV) whose officers carry MP5 submachine guns, Glock handguns, and TASER electronic incapacitation devices. See also
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