Detectives Adam Cronshaw and Colin Liversage were watching a restaurant in Rusholme where a private Jamaican party was in full swing when they saw gangster Ricardo Chambers turn up at the door.
The plain-clothes officers watched as Chambers refused to be searched and was turned away.
They became suspicious, chased him and cornered him in an alleyway.
A search revealed he had thrown away a gun with nine bullets in the magazine which was found in a nearby garden.
Tearful Chambers, a member of Moss Side's notorious Gooch gang, was jailed for seven-and-half years at Manchester Crown Court today.
DC Cronshaw, 33, said: "I knew it was serious from the way he was sweating. I detained him and kept a good hold of him until back-up arrived. We knew he had some weapons or drugs on him because of the way he was behaving and that's why we decided to turn his pockets out.
"We chased him down an alleyway. He was sweating like and he was really nervous. We found a loaded pistol in a back garden under a car baby seat. He's thrown it in there."
Asked if he feared being shot, the officer said: "No, not really. You don't think about that otherwise you would never chase anybody. It didn't cross my mind. It crossed my mind afterwards what could have happened but it doesn't stop you doing what you've got to do.
"This sentence will send out a strong message. I don't have any sympathy for him. If he wants to carry guns and drugs around with him he's got to accept the consequences. He's a grown man."
Chambers, 20, of Alexandra Avenue, Moss Side, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possessing a prohibited weapon and possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply.
Police swooped after they saw him acting suspiciously on October 14 last year as he tried to get into a private party at Tabak restaurant on Wilmslow Road
He refused to be searched and so wasn't allowed into the restaurant.
He was chased and finally cornered in an alleyway off Ravensdale Street.
Officers searched him and his gun was found nearby.
He was arrested and taken to Longsight police station where a more thorough search uncovered a small bag hidden in his sock which contained 10 rocks of crack cocaine.
Forensic evidence proved Chambers had handled the gun.
The firearm was originally made to fire blanks but had been converted and was found to contain nine bullets. Tweet
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"Chambers, of Alexandra Avenue, Moss Side,"
Says it all doesn't it?
Gun Gangster? Glorifying these people by giving them the title of gangster doesn't achieve anything.
Pity he didn't " accidently " get shot during the arrest. Would have saved us a few bob.
Seven and a half years? Wow. Out in four? I bet he's laughing in his cell!
Fantastic news, another one off our streets.
GMP keep on chipping away.
waywardweastie - What do you actually mean when you say '...says it all'??
People like you need to get educated and stop stereotyping things...just because he is from Moss Side it doesn't mean EVERYONE from there is like that!!!!!
Guten Tag,yes he will be laughing in his cell on a mobile phone where he can keep in touch,his sentence is part of his lifestyle and part of his image,my opinion is he should never get out of prison.
Good work done! crime stoppers.
Our police should all be armed like in civilised countries such as France. Then criminals know they can expect an armed response from the nearest policeman not a firearms unit travelling for miles through city traffic.
I think the sentence is pathetic.
wehat exactly is a "Jamaican party"
He should have been given 20 years.
I particularly enjoyed reading about a 'tearful Chambers', what a big, hard man he obviously is.
I hope the two 'bobbies' rceive some form of reognition from the new chief.
Let's take the handcuffs of paperwork and form-filling from officers, free-ing them up to do what they - in general - are good at... nicking criminals.
Excellent work.
Possesion of a gun should mean an automatic 10 years in jail. NO early release, and NO human rights.
What a sentence - he should have got at least a life sentence for every bullet he had because if he had not been stopped that could have been a tremendous loss of life. Well done to the "Bobbies" what a catch .
The Seeker: "Possesion of a gun should mean an automatic 10 years in jail. NO early release, and NO human rights."
I was waiting for somebody to start droning on about human rights.
What has that got to do with human rights? Which piece of human rights legislation do you feel would impede your suggestion?
Black Flag:
Learco Chindamo, who was convicted for stabbing headmaster Philip Lawrence to death in 1995, will be allowed to remain in the UK when he is released from prison because deporting him to his native Italy would breach his HUMAN RIGHTS Home Office Minister Tony McNulty has vowed to challenge this decision, claiming that Chindamo has forfeited his rights, due to the “heinous” nature of his crime
The Seeker, that is relevant to this case because...?
There seems to be an obsession in the UK with trying to solve the problem by clamping down on weaponry, rather than the criminal use of it, which often just makes the situation worse.
I would agree that sentencing is often lacking. The case of Tony Martin, who killed with an illegally held shotgun and only served three years being a case in point.
not such a hard man when he is blubbing is he? a lot of these kids that carry guns couldn't fight there way out of a wet paper bag
From Moss Side? Why am I not surprised?
Incidentally, Seeker, the Learco Chindamo case wasn't decided on the basis of human rights law, in spite of the sensationalist stories in the media; it was due to EU freedom of movement laws.
As you are probably aware, the EU is a single market where any citizen of one country can work in another. Because of that, deportation between EU nations is only permitted if the person being deported can be shown to present a continuing serious danger. In this case, the home office were not able to show that was the case.
Chindamo's lawyers presented a case based on both EU and human rights laws, but it was the EU freedom of movement law that the case was decided on. Even if we were in a complete nanny state and had no human rights laws, he still wouldn't have been eligible for deportation.
Black Flag, I totally agree Tony Martin should never been jailed for 3 years. He should have been knighted.
The Seeker: "Tony Martin should never been jailed for 3 years. He should have been knighted."
Is that before or after he'd served his 10 years in prison under your: "Possesion of a gun should mean an automatic 10 years in jail. NO early release, and NO human rights."
Black Flag, self defence is different matter.
The Seeker, firstly it wasn't self-defence. A jury found him guilty of murder, the court of appeal reduced it to manslaughter.
Secondly, your automatic ten years in jail was for possessing an illegal firearm, so you would have sent him down irrespective of whether or not he used the gun and no matter what he used it for.
Black Flag, thank God we do have a court of appeal. They saw the light. I rest my case.