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26 Jul 2022

Record number of UK police forces classed as ‘failing’

North of England Correspondent

Never before have as many of the UK’s police forces been classed as failing.

There are now six in total, including the UK’s biggest – the metropolitan police – as well as the Greater Manchester force, which has been in special measures since 2020.

Since then there’s been a change at the top of GMP – with the new Chief constable claiming there’ve already been big improvements.