Emergency services brace themselves for criticism over 'catastrophic' response to Manchester Arena terror attack
The emergency services are bracing themselves for criticism when the long-awaited report into their response to the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack is finally published on Thursday.
And a North West Ambulance Service commander has offered their own apology - this was also rejected by the families. Only three paramedics were dispatched into the blast zone, and one of those was triaging rather than treating casualties. Last summer, the chairman of the long-running inquiry into the atrocity, Sir John Saunders, published the first of three reports, concluding Abedi should have been identified as a 'threat' and challenged on the night. 'Disruptive intervention' should have been taken against him and lives could have been saved as a result, Sir John found in his damning report into security arrangements on the night.
Still conscious and speaking, Mr Atkinson was moved on a makeshift stretcher to the 'casualty clearing station' on the concourse of Victoria railway station. He repeatedly told people caring for him: "I'm going to die." The problems of that night had been foreshadowed at a counter terrorism training exercise at the Trafford Centre just ten months before the arena attack, the inquiry has heard.
However, she was among at least six people who have held the portfolio at GMP - and even then she only had it for seven months before joining another force.
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