Police are ‘willing to step in to do whatever we can’ to solve the chaos at Manchester Airport, Chief Constable Stephen Watson has said today. The Chief, speaking at the site of a dawn raid in Blackley, did however rule out his officers ‘doing baggage handling type tasks’.
GMP has already been deployed to the ailing international airport, to assist in security. That includes increasing ‘our presence such as to just make sure that people keep calm heads on the situation’, Mr Watson added.
He also clarified that he would not put so many officers into the terminals that people in other areas of Greater Manchester would suffer. The Chief Constable told the Manchester Evening News : “We've already put extra police officers in, of course we did over the weekend.
