Inadequate information access in GMP systems
Greater Manchester Police received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 15 Apr 2016 and 18 Nov 2020.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 3 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The GMP computer system hinders officers and does not afford them easy access to important information within the time scales they have available to them, in order for them to adequately assess a situation.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Greater Manchester Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“GMP is investing significantly in the replacement of technology through the IS Transformation Programme to replace existing separate command and control, custody, intelligence, work allocation, and property systems with one user experience and a more intelligence information management process that enables partner agency information sharing (iOPS). The programme will also improve integration of components outside of these core systems, replace ageing data warehouse capabilities and moving to a data”
Stated timescale: late 2017
- 4 years 7 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“was unclear where the information that an individual met the | criteria for a serial and serious DA Perpetrator should or did sit in | GMPs systems”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Greater Manchester Police responded, stating 2 specific actions.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
“the Council has made significant improvements to its policies and procedures since 2018”
“CPS Direct have also trained all prosecutors on 'Domestic Abuse Evidence Led Prosecutions'. This built on the Case Analysis and Strategy training focussing on the importance of case-building DA cases from the very start, where possible strengthening the case to ensure that it could proceed without the victim. It also gave refresher guidance on the available legislation and gateways for the admission of evidence without calling the victim, stressing the need to ensure scrupulous policy compliance”
Stated timescale: July-October 2020
- All reports to Greater Manchester Police
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2016 → 2020Alfie Gildea4 years 7 months after Adele Blakeman · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight difficulties officers face in obtaining needed information from GMP systems due to system design or accessibility issues.
Adele Blakeman · 15 Apr 2016
“The GMP computer system hinders officers and does not afford them easy access to important information within the time scales they have available to them, in order for them to adequately assess a situation.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Alfie Gildea · 18 Nov 2020
“was unclear where the information that an individual met the | criteria for a serial and serious DA Perpetrator should or did sit in | GMPs systems”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action · timescale: late 2017
“GMP is investing significantly in the replacement of technology through the IS Transformation Programme to replace existing separate command and control, custody, intelligence, work allocation, and property systems with one user experience and a more intelligence information management process that enables partner agency information sharing (iOPS). The programme will also improve integration of components outside of these core systems, replace ageing data warehouse capabilities and moving to a data”
Stated action
“the Council has made significant improvements to its policies and procedures since 2018”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
Stated action · timescale: July-October 2020
“CPS Direct have also trained all prosecutors on 'Domestic Abuse Evidence Led Prosecutions'. This built on the Case Analysis and Strategy training focussing on the importance of case-building DA cases from the very start, where possible strengthening the case to ensure that it could proceed without the victim. It also gave refresher guidance on the available legislation and gateways for the admission of evidence without calling the victim, stressing the need to ensure scrupulous policy compliance”
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Greater Manchester Police at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 → 2020 | 0.73 | 0.11 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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