GMP Chief Constable Stephen Watson has split opinion after calling for officers to stop 'virtue-signalling' on social media. In an interview with The Times, Mr Watson said his officers should 'get on with being the police because that's what you are paid for'.
Mr Watson, who replaced Ian Hopkins as GMP's Chief Constable in May 2021 after the crisis-hit force was placed in special measures in December 2020, said: "Using social media, in these very contested times, requires a particular skill. And it’s a skill that we do not have. So for the most part, regardless of our intentions, we tend to use social media badly."
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