Eight police officers have been suspended from driving duties after a grandad biker died following a 50-minute chase involving several squad cars and the force plane.It emerged today that all officers wanted to do was check his documents. Alan Long, 54, was the 25th person killed in six years on Greater Manchester roads in incidents involving GMP vehicles - one of the worst records in the country. The M.E.N. can reveal today that the police control room tried to call off the chase a number of times, but the pursuit went on. Officers had signalled for Mr Long to pull over because of a driving document offence. He failed to stop and was chased for more than 50 minutes, with a number of vehicles joining the pursuit. The force plane was also scrambled. The full news article can be read on the Manchester Evening News website.Without meaning to sound callous or insensitive because the death of Mr Long is undoubtedly a tragic loss, but I feel I must raise a couple of points. The first and obvious one is why didn’t he just stop? The answer to that unfortunately will never be known, but secondly; why on earth have eight police officers been suspended from driving duties? Surely it is their job to try and apprehend anyone who disobeys a lawful request to stop. Tameside Citizen
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Save in their hands
8 officers is stupid and a waste of resources especially on a Saturday night.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the officer who authorized this chase.
Why did he run?
It is the rules that when there has been an accident during a police chase (even if a wing mirror is damaged during a pursuit) then the police officer is suspended from driving duties. so i wouldn't go reading anything suspicious into why they have been suspended in this instance.
also it is better to have eight police officers trying to stop a runaway driver as quickly as possible than let that person continue and kill some innocent passrby with their careless and reckless driving. The people would be up in arms over why the police didn't do more to stop the chase in the first place.
Perhaps Liam should take the chip off his shoulder over the police and look at things with a clear perspective rather than through his rose(perhaps blue is more appropriate)tinted spectacles. Just because someone has made a complaint against him and he feels he is innocent doesn't mean the police don't have to investigate.
Liam may well be innocent, the police may have not investigated in the most efficient manner, however, * officers is not 'stupid' and 'a waste of resources' if they prevent a death, whereas they would only have prevented a bloodied nose in the centre of Stalybridge from pissed up arseholes kicking the living shit out of each other.
The question should be why do we not have more police? Why did the guy run? And is Liam really as innocent as he claims?
I heard the officer in charge of this case is being investigated for calling someone we all know a "w*nker" on the phone. I've also heard the same officer isn't too well liked within the local constabulary either.
Come to think of it, I've even heard Tameside Divison aren't well regarded by insiders in Greater Manchester Police. I haven't heard this from anyone with an axe to grind, it's just word on the street.
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