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Creating confidence A number of events will be taking place across GMP to mark National Customer Service Week (6-8 October). The week of action aims to raise awareness of the importance of good customer service and promote the work of the GMP Customer Service Champions Network. Claire Mayle, Customer Service and Victim Satisfaction Officer said: “The Champions network has been making steady progress in improving the service offered to victims. Thanks to those involved we are leading the
way in terms of peer influence and empowering people to bring about real change. “We are specifically focusing on our internal audience for the week of action and looking at ways that we can raise awareness and peer influence amongst our colleagues. “We hope the week will provide the opportunity to embed the five drivers of satisfaction, the nine policing principles and standards of professional behaviour, from the new Code of Ethics.”
To find out please contact your local champion: North Manchester: Lisa Ward, Amanda Staley & Kal Bhatti South Manchester: Danny O’Neil & Andy Bell Tameside: Jason Grisdale & Maria Nickisson Stockport: Ady Hazlehurst & Paul Lunt Bolton: Andrea Ennis Trafford: Dean Hough & Beverley Cowan
Bury: Carolyn Bentham & Andy Hall 13845 Oldham: Suzanne Hudson 20335, Louis Baistow-Davies & Jason Byrne Rochdale: Brendan Walsh Wigan: Mark Wilkinson & Joe Potts Airport: Fiona Jay Salford: Leanne Kennedy & Cheryl Critchley OCB: Cath Viller & Stephanie Buckland
Around the world
WEDGED IN: A train load of commuters helped free a man trapped between a carriage and the platform by shoving it off him. The passenger slipped and got wedged as he tried to board the train near Perth in Australia.
SLOW CHASE: Police in Sweden recently had to chase a suspect – who was completely naked and wearing handcuffs – in a rowing boat. Officers were forced onto the water after a 26-year-old handcuffed man managed to escape, fled into the sea and started swimming away. A police officer jumped in the water with a buoy, and another unit jumped into a rowing boat. The chase came to a not so swift end after the man was apprehended and taken away.
SKATEBOARD COP: The world's first skateboard cop is now patrolling the streets of America on his longboard. Officer Joel Zwicky, 40, keeps tabs on his patch while riding around on a Green Bay police customised board. He patrols the parks and pavements on his skateboard while wearing his kevlar vest, sidearm, ammunition and radio as normal.
RADIO SUCCESS: Ch Insp Pat McKelvey (pictured left) and PC Mike McGuinness (pictured centre) turned to BBC Radio Manchester for help in getting crime information out to the public and ended up with a radio slot of their own. The show with DJ Mike Sweeney embraces the popularity of social media and uses it as a tool to spread its messages further. “It’s all about community engagement” said Mike. “We pitched the idea of the show because we needed to get more information out there to the public and radio has a lot bigger reach than the bobbies on the beat.”.”
6 Brief Autumn 2014
PATROL ON A TRACTOR: With flashing blue lights and police paintwork on the bonnet, Britain’s most rural police force yesterday unveiled their new patrol vehicle - a tractor with a top speed of just 20mph. Dyfed Powys Police hope the machine will improve their relationships with rural communities in Mid and West Wales.