Burnham Must Go.

[Sunk]

The Mayor of Manchester is responsible for overseeing the conduct and running Greater Manchester Police (GMP).

GMP has been failing for many years. The Mayor has been made aware of the situation many times but has done nothing. Mainly because his cronies run the police show in Manchester.

Finally, time has caught up withe GMP. It has been put into Special Measures, because it is not fit for purpose. 25% of reported crimes in Greater Manchester never even made it onto their records. 80,000 crimes went unrecorded.

The Chief Constable who should have been sacked years ago has now resigned. He has hidden behind sick leave for months.

But all along, Burnham has been in charge of this Omnishambles, and should go.

[Sunk]

From 2018.

https://neilwilby.com/2019/08/12/catalogue-of-policing-scandals-that-shame-the-two-faced-mayor-of-manchester/

[andres]

If 25% of reported crimes never made it onto their records and 80,000 crimes went unrecorded how did anyone get to know about any of them?Someone must have been keeping tabs.

[Peter Pedant]

we have a had a few chief constables over the years. Someone is gonna say that James Anderton wasnt that bad. COmpared to what came after
Mike - hot toddy - Todd poisoned himself after getting into a mess with inviting women to have - - to kiss him. The leader of the Labour faction of the council did nt like it - she was a woman I hasten to add

This one sat on his hands during the time that some girls were considered to have taken a decision to be women of the night

Andy Burnham is not operational (!) - he cannot tell the Chief Constable to do this ! or do that !
( and when the executive thinks he can you get the situation of Trump telling the FBI to find evidence of a screwed election )

so all in all I am surprised he has gone
will be replaced by one of his hand picked subordinates apparently

[Peter Pedant]

and just think
how times change
when Michael Fagin ja-ja'd around the Queen's bedroom, twice, the head of the MP ( Metro police commissioner) did not feel the need to resign on the grounds he had failed to protect Her Maj

He was er OK as he was thank you

those were the days