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An ANPR equipped road policing unit pictured in 2013. GMP also operates a Road Policing Unit (RPU) responsible for all traffic policing in the county, which includes over 280 miles (450 km) of motorway. In 2009, the RPU's were divided into three strategic units, based at RPU 1 Leigh, RPU 2 Hyde & RPU 3 Chadderton.
RPUs work with the National Police Chiefs' Council roads policing strategy, Policing our Roads Together, [1] which has five strands: Casualty reduction. Counter-terrorism. Reducing anti-social use of the roads. Denying criminals the use of the roads. Public reassurance by high visibility patrolling of the road network.
Surrey Police and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) give their Traffic PCSOs (who are part of GMP's Road Policing Unit (RPU)) white covered caps in the same style as traffic police officers. The hat retains though the standard blue band and force crest as other PCSOs in GMP.
When a police officer or a member of staff is in a collaborative (multi-constabulary) unit or department (such as the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Road Policing Unit), the PNC code, which is a force identification number, is added to the collar number to prevent confusion between officers; e.g., 41-9999 would indicate a ...
[2] [3] Thompson also wrote, “The government has had a partial view of policing in the last few years. It was very interested in terrorism and high-end threats but less focused on local crimes, which had been left for forces and police and crime commissioners to manage amid steep budget cuts.
Police Interceptors - series broadcast on Channel 5 with a similar format. Brit Cops - police documentary series originally on Bravo and now on Sky Livingit. Road Wars - programme broadcast on Sky1, Sky2, and Pick TV which is about Road Traffic Police. Street Wars - programme broadcast on Sky about police officers "on the beat".
The service was relayed live on the BBC Big Screen Manchester and to the GMP Police training centre, Sedgley Park. [ 12 ] [ 15 ] On 6 October 2008, the coroner ruled that Todd had died from exposure , essentially freezing to death having been only lightly clothed on the slopes of Snowdon, and while "his state of mind was affected by alcohol, a ...
Sir Peter Martin Fahy QPM (born 18 January 1959 in London, England) is a retired senior British police officer. He was the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), [2] the United Kingdom's third largest police force. He retired from the police force on 23 October 2015 after serving for 34 years. [3]