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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Max Channon

GMP federation chair shares fears of energy price riots and 'unravelling of society'

The chairman of the Greater Manchester Police Federation has shared fears over widescale energy price riots - and a "serious risk that we will see the unravelling of society".

PC Lee Broadbent shared a poll on Twitter asking police officers if they believed forces "have the operational capacity to deal with wide-spread riots as well as routine policing".

Sharing the poll, PC Broadbent wrote: "What every chief officer publicly shies away from, every front line cop knows. It’s not that we wouldn’t passionately hold the line... it’s how long we could actually do it."

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