GMP ARRESTS: Challenging Abuse & Brutality

The Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is exercising disproportionate and malicious arresting. This has been well documented during 2023 and 2024 in media disclosures, events and news stories. Many of these arrests are on the victims of crime and complainants against GMP.

Arrests have doubled since Chief Constable Stephen Watson took up post in 2021, with a large proportion seeming to be little more than abuse of arrest powers to give the optics of improvement. Additionally ‘stop and search’ has skyrocketed; 70% above national average increase. Reports of police harassment have also escalated significantly.

Something is very wrong in Greater Manchester with policing, and the public are bearing the brunt.

This event will explore if anything has changed since the publishing of The Baird Inquiry in July 2024, and what can be done to reduce the ongoing public harm being caused by GMP.

We will have an expert panel giving advice, answering questions and helping explore what can be done to protect all communities and individuals in Greater Manchester from the abuse of powers by GMP. The panel will include ‘user-expert’ members of the public; legal advisors; researchers and; experienced policing commentators.

This is an open forum event for questions and discussion.

This event will be of interest to victims of GMP power abuse and those who are professionally endeavouring to challenge the public harm of policing.

Host or Publisher Project PEEL