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November 08, 2025

POLICE CHIEF HELPS IN ARREST OF SUSPECT AS HE LEAVES EVENT

- By STEPHEN TOPPING

MARCHING into action, fresh from a celebration to welcome his newest recruits, this is the moment Greater Manchester's top cop helped make an arrest.

It's highly unusual for a chief constable to get involved with the hard graft of arresting suspects on the ground.

But that was the reality faced by one alleged shoplifter in Prestwich on Thursday.

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