Is this an interview he's given for IKEA's new in-house store channel or something?

What are the figures for these random killings with guns and not connected to gangs,though probably to general criminality?I think many people have been in situations where if they had a gun they would have used it,in self defence.How many people own a gun legally or illigally for this purpose,claiming its for hunting,target shooting or sport?I know small boys who could go on university challenge and win if the specialist subject was guns and they are not connected to criminality at all.Aside from gang wars ,TV has to take a lot of the blame for making those with guns all powerful.Imagine the inadequate,bullied young male being fed this on a daily basis.There are so many issues around the subject of guns,small boys playing with them in the street wasnt a problem to most until the could actually fire pellets and are sold as toys.How many boys now find it second nature to carry one of these and does it lead to the real thing.I think the police need to research this culture and learn from it where to go next.

His quote of slipping back into Gunchester, please Mr Fahy tell me when Manchester ever slipped out of the Gunchester term because all the proper Mancs unlike someone who has arrived from the Cheshire countryside knows that gun crime is worse than ever at present in Manchester and is caused by drug gangs, the proper gangsters choose to stay on their own patches and graft as they all know that guns attract the Police and they dont need hassle , however the young dumb wannabee's and nevergo a bees think great I have a gun I know I will go and shoot someone and cause mayhem. Mr Fahy get into reality gunchester and guns in Manchester are here to stay for a long long time, there are approx 10,000 illegal shooters in Greater Manchester alone, then you have Liverpool and Leeds where again the gun possession is high

This Chief needs to get in the real world. Guns are rife here and the ploice just ride round in cars ignoring the public they are supposed to serve.

Even last night on Eastenders,Phil Mitchell threatened his mothers husband by dropping a bullet into his glass.The constant violence and murders in soaps are helping to make it seem the norm.Young people must feel that lifes cheap,and under threat of death over the most trivial arguements or disputes when they watch these programmes.I know I do!

Reality check...Guns are readily available only to people with any form of connection with the criminal underworld. It costs between 500-2000 pound depending on the type of gun required. There have been recent shootings in Rochdale, Oldham and Salford with serious injuries and fatalities caused.
Angie this has nothing to do with television as you have suggested. Also guns are never glamourised in any form. Each person who takes possession of an illegal firearm knows its purpose and is prepared to use it. Don't hide away from the reality of this fact.
Guns settle scores in manchester. It is not a novelty item - it is a "must have" if you are involved in criminality associated with drugs and extortion.
The only way to fight gun culture is head on and if anyone is found in possession of a firearm either on them or on their property then they should get an automatic 10 year no parole sentence. Not a typical 5 year sentence where they are released on licence in 2 years of a 5 year sentence.

All the "experts" on this column need to be phoning crimestoppers 0800 555 111 with their intelligence on gun possession in this city of ours.

The "Gunchester" phrase is one we can do without... it is used by adolescent males desperate to find where they sit in the "pecking" order, those with an inferiority complex who need to cling to the bosom of a gang for a desperately sought identity.

The real players in the City - the Cops and the proper villains don't use this "trite" phrase.

PS ,, Angie33

""Even last night on Eastenders,Phil Mitchell threatened his mothers husband by dropping a bullet into his glass"".

It's not real, you know! Eastenders is only pretend !

Zero tollerance and real policing and a legal system/prison system would have solved this problem along with scrapping the human rights laws that allows prisoners more rights than the people they prey on.Its time to bring real deterents back before its to late,like in america.

Yes, lets make our penal system more like America's, because God knows they have no inner-city gun crime there.... Oh, hang on a minute...

Mr Fahy,

The city never came out of the gunchester culture, in fact its only got worse.

Open your eyes and ears and start policing ...properly.

Chief Constables who are on massive incomes and live in nice areas are not in touch with the real world they need to live in these areas 24/7 and put up with some of these people who frighten the general public daily and are intimidated by them..Most top coppers are out of the loop.

I think it should be illegal for the police force to manipulate figures, which lead’s the general public into believing they are doing their job more efficiently and reducing “gang related” incidents.
I would like to point out that shooting “incidents” have not reduced dramatically in Manchester in the past year, all that has happened is GMP no longer list such incidents as gang related. This in result reduces there misleading statistics.

Please look the next time a shooting happens or they find bullet casing on the roads.
It will give some rubbish like police are exploring possible causes and/or police do not think this is gang related. Who else but these people shoot at one another?

I wish GMP spent as much time catching criminals and policing our streets as they do on publicity stunts!

What world does this Chief constable live in. He wants to take a walk around Wythenshaw and see what goes on, and not at night, in fact there is so much going on during the day, as the scroats know bobbies tend to devote more time to these activities during the night as they are probably doing paperwork during the day. I know of several cases of people having guns in their possessions. I have personally experienced gun terror from an ex who is so violent, that I have had to move home several times. His mates all have some sort of gun and other weapons. As for Drugs, there are several distributors and in my area alone there are at least ten dealers that call regularly to buy their supplies, yet the Police seem not to do anything about it. I have phoned Crime Stoppers a number of times and the Police, yet these people still carry on their trade. When is some action going to be taken. I do have an axe to grind as I have been a drug user in the past but now realise, how these dealers and pushers nearly ruined my life and that of my children. So get off your backside Mr Fahy and see the real world of Wythenshawe and the other areas of Manchester that are being subjected to these types of crimes. We all know that there are Statistics and than there are Lies!! I wonder which GMP are using, I would guess, Both!!

Well he would say that wouldn't he: to save his job. He dare not admit that organized criminals are doing as they please. Everytime there is a rape or robbery: the Manchester Police propaganda department says: This is an isolated incident: no need to worry (because we are not worrying about the lives of your family being ruined forever, we are doing a good job, and we deserve our money: so shut up!) The MEN reports these propaganda statements every time, without comment.

He added: "It is not about members of the public being shot on the street. It's an extension of criminal association.

Yet with the Salford shopkeeper killing and the shooting in Chadderton it was said they were cases of mistaken identity.
Seems as if hes now solved the motives for the crime, just have to find who dunnit. Or wait for them to be shot by someone else.
Laughable that this man is in charge. Mind you, with Labour in charge of the country, what do I expect?