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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Paul Britton

GMP 'not compliant' with officer first aid training requirements at time of Manchester Arena bombing

Greater Manchester Police was not providing the recommended hours of first aid training to its officers at the time of the Manchester Arena attack, the public inquiry into the atrocity was told.

The inquiry also heard that a new national triage system for medics and emergency services personnel to assess casualties with has been developed in the wake of the atrocity.

Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said Tuesday marked the end of evidence concerning 'the deeply complex and highly important issue of the adequacy of the emergency services response on the night of the Arena attack'.

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