GMP is ‘definitely on their way’ to being up-to-standard, the policing minister has said on a visit to Manchester today. The force has repeatedly been blasted by inspectors for its failings, leading to it being put in special measures in December 2020 .
Kit Malthouse said he was ‘happy with progress thus far’, believing the ‘basics now seem to be getting there on a daily basis’. He was speaking inside a Blackley cannabis farm which GMP officers had raided that morning.
Among the shards of glass, ripped-up wiring, and offcuts of tubing used to cultivate the 100 cannabis plants inside the modest semi-detached home, he was shown the haul by detectives and Chief Constable, Stephen Watson. The property would generate between £80-and-£100,000 in profits for the criminals that established it — next door to a well-kept family home and garden.
