shameful self promotion

I'm loving the way the scum underclass are now beong subjected to this new "swift justice" - did this clown think nobody would question why he was wandering round with a large tv on his shoulder hours after the looting. What a grade A plonker! Still he'll have plenty of time to contemplate his actions soon.

Known criminals were ordered to turn around. Turn around and go where? To cause trouble in Stockport, Warrington, the leafy suburbs of South Manchester and Cheshire? They should have been stopped and searched; if the police thought they were out looking for trouble, there's a good chance they were 'tooled up', as they say. Having said that, I'd like the police to do this more often - an ordinary Saturday night in Manchester city centre is not often a pleasant experience, regardless of riots having taken place.

Well done to all the police who had to deal with the feral scum, i hope they keep it up, If the so called justice system would do there job and not hand out a slap on the wrist that would go a long way dealing with them.

If they were known criminals,why weren't they arrested instead of being turned back?

How is that legal? Well, in an actual, real, western democracy it wouldnt be. And before the usual suspects who trawl these boards like trolls evicted from the bridges the squat under start commenting - lets ask them all who has EVER been convicted of any offence? Then we can listen to the lies.

"We are on top of the situation.".
Yes maybe now you are. But you wasn't on the night. There were looters smashing up Salford Shopping City for over 90 minutes before any police turned up.
I must say they have done a good job in restoring order, but the lack of knowledge in what the police were doing on the night of the riots was somewhat shocking!

Memo to Downing Street...*Carry on with cutting police officers, & their budget will only result in more mayhem in the not so distant future.
And I imagine that went in ones ear, & out the other.
The Tories, or Lib Dems should NEVER get into power ever again.
We all predicted this several months ago didn't we.

Wondered where that line of black 4x4's with tinted windows were going the other night :-) Well done GMP

'wheelie bins set on fire to melt roads.' why would you do that to your own neighbourhood? theyll be using those roads more than anyone else

total over reaction from GMP - I abhor what happened on tuesday night, but we are slepp walking into a police state

watch this - harmless protesters stooped and searched by GMP officers on Friday afternoon outside the BBC, who were unhappy at David Cameron's presence in the city. This was just across the street from the Maplin store that got looted. Would have preferred to see GMP doing something about the looting, rather than hassling some protesters....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQNGPza1Cx4

Keep up the good work guys.

But while your on the city centre streets looking for potential looters, it wouldn't hurt you to do something about those Asian professional beggars that drag their kids around Piccadilly all the time.

I cannot understand why police did not turn back all those kids that were entering the city centre on Tuesday night, after all they were expecting rioting to happen. Muppets comes to mind.

I do not believe the police have the legal authority to do this. I think they can 'ask' but not demand that the person returns. Obviously the way they are asking is to make it sound like an order. As if they have the power.

I am against rioting but I am also against the police overstepping their powers.

MX08 GMZ

.....a double decker on the 192, full of hooded chavs upstairs. They didn't stop that one.

I wonder how those conversations went down:

Officer: "Mister, it looks like you were caught doodling on a school desk when you were 6. We can not allow ruthless criminals such as yourself and your family to enter the city and burn our buildings"

Previous Offender: "But officer, that was a long time ago, I've served my sentence! My family and I are going to my mother-in-laws funeral.

Officer: "Regardless, you are still a previous offender and you are not allowed in the city."

I wonder how those conversations went down:

Officer: "Mister, it looks like you were caught doodling on a school desk when you were 6. We can not allow ruthless criminals such as yourself and your family to enter the city and burn our buildings"

Previous Offender: "But officer, that was a long time ago, I've served my sentence! My family and I are going to my mother-in-laws funeral.

Officer: "Regardless, you are still a previous offender and you are not allowed in the city."

I wonder how those conversations went down:

Officer: "Mister, it looks like you were caught doodling on a school desk when you were 6. We can not allow ruthless criminals such as yourself and your family to enter the city and burn our buildings"

Previous Offender: "But officer, that was a long time ago, I've served my sentence! My family and I are going to my mother-in-laws funeral.

Officer: "Regardless, you are still a previous offender and you are not allowed in the city."

After what happened on Tuesday i would say the police have every right to turn the SCUM out of our City, never mind legal authority and all that rubbish, Tuesday night was just a joke to all the SCUM so demanding that eeerrrrrm "person" as you call it turns round and get's lost is a great thing , well done the police ...... I was born and Bred in this City so it is my CITY and i don't want the SCUM entering it ..... Keep it up GMP..

if they are known criminals they should be taken off the streets permanently. As a island there is plenty of space to build prison barges and dump the scum there FOREVER. Movement restrictions, slap on the wrist sentences and letting children off because they are too young... ridioculous. The government hasn't got a clue.

In a country supposedly operating under the rule of law, this is shameful. The disgrace is only surpassed by the way Fahy is openly admitting to the contemptible opportunism.

The cuts to police funding can't come quickly enough, or be made deeply enough.

Why only known criminals, are they known for rioting or just anyone with a criminal conviction. Its just the start of police wanting more powers to remove more of our freedoms, conviction or no conviction.

The cops now that certain cars and people are career criminals, to all those who are liberal criminal supporters imagine if a car load of thieves were stopped by cops and allowed to go into Manchester city centre. They then walk into the bar or cafe you are sat and steal your walletts, and expensive clothing you just bought. You would be livied and even more so if you found out the cops knew these theives were coming into the centre to steal and yet allowed them to come into the centre. Or are you saying that the cops shouldn't stop criminals? Also a lot of the Anti Cameron marchers are serial violent offenders who use violence to get their views across, and yes that includes all those teachers etc

An excellent approach. Well done to the GMP.

So far very impressed with how the police and courts are dealing with these criminals.

its about time they had a bit of credit!

There are two things that bother me about this approach.
1) That the police have merged data on individual criminality with data about the vehicle you drive. This effectively allows a person to be tracked anywhere in the country and throws the very notion of individual privacy out of the window. It is a misuse of vehicle data and abuse of position.
2) That the police are arbitrarily refusing lawful entry to a person who has a prior conviction. The database does not show what that conviction is, but merely alerts and says "conviction = x registration plate". So effectively anyone who has received a speeding fine, a fine for littering or anything so trivial (and also more serious offences) would be forbidden lawful entry to this area. This is a gross abuse of power and is actually illegal under the 1976 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

There is valid policing a community and preventing criminals from gaining access to riot, and then there is abuse of power and position to gain a headline. This is the latter.

"Officers stationed on key routes into the city have been instantly checking registration plates of vehicles against a string of national databases. Known criminals have been intercepted and ordered to turn around."

What prevents them from returning along a minor route?