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DI Simon Akker alongside some of the firearms we've recovered since April 2020
A total of 120 firearms were taken off the streets of Greater Manchester in the last year as police continue to tackle the use of lethal weapons by organised crime groups.
Between April 2020 and the end of March this year, scores of firearms were seized as a result of proactive operations and planned raids supported by our Serious and Organised Crime Firearms Investigation Team (SOC FIT), who were launched in 2018 dedicated to tackling the use of illegal firearms in Greater Manchester.
The huge haul includes self-loaded pistols, shotguns and imitation firearms held by criminals to be converted into viable weapons including top-venting imitation guns, which GMP has seized 30 converted replicas of since April 2020.
Working alongside the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU), we continue to tackle the conversion and supply of such legal blank-firing firearms into illegal, lethal ones.
Our response includes a proactive operation - codenamed Lyra - which was formed in July 2020 to investigate the supply and possession of such weapons.
Seven people have been arrested so far, and Scott Robinson, 43, from Oldham, was sentenced to a total of five years for possession of a converted imitation firearm in January.
Two further suspects have been charged as part of the operation and await trial later this year accused of conspiracy to supply firearms.
The crackdown has seen discharges in the county reduced from 85 to 71 during the last 12 months - equating to 16%.
One of the most significant district decreases was in Salford (-40%) after the inception of the Operation Naseby disruption hub over a year ago.
The SOC FIT supported a further six boroughs where shootings at least halved in 2020/21, including Wigan (down from nine to two), Bolton (down from five to one) and Tameside (down from four to one).
In Manchester, an increase in recorded discharges saw 10 in the first three months of 2021 in the north of the city alone, which led to a dedicated response between the SOC Firearms team and detectives from the City of Manchester North division.
It included a three-week blitz on organised crime at the end of March where several warrants were executed and 11 arrests were made, yielding three firearms, ammunition, over £150,000 in cash, and 10 kilos of class A and B drugs.
Twenty arrests have been made in total during the offensive, including Jack Modlinsky, 24, of Cheetham Hill, who was jailed for over five-and-a-half years last month when officers found £134,000 in cash, £8,000's worth of cocaine, and a knife during a warrant at his address as part of the action.
There has been just one discharge in the north of the city during the last 10 weeks since our robust response.
Officers continue to work alongside local partners to continue reducing gun crime in the region by targeting and disrupting organised crime activity across Greater Manchester.
Detective Inspector Simon Akker, head of GMP's Serious and Organised Crime Firearms Investigation Team, said: "We've been working relentlessly in SOC FIT to really drive a wedge between organised crime groups and the possession, supply and use of weapons in Greater Manchester, which is one of GMP's top priorities.
"By seizing more firearms than there have been discharges in the last year or so, it shows that we are proactively taking the fight back to organised criminals to stamp out the use of guns on our streets.
"While we can quantify the amount of weapons we've recovered and the decrease in discharges, what we can't count is the amount of incidents that we have prevented as a result of the action we have taken - but I can confidently say we have stopped people getting shot.
"That said, three men lost their lives on the streets of Greater Manchester due to gun crime last year which is three too many and we know that our work must continue to intensify to reduce these incidents further.
"The vast majority of incidents are targeted and are not a threat to the wider public, but that does not reduce the level of fear and anxiety they feel when acts of gun violence occur in their community and we have a duty to ensure that the public remain safe - each of these guns recovered is another potentially lethal incident stopped.
"Our focus remains on taking strong action against those in society who brazenly involve themselves in the use, trade and criminal conversion of firearms in Greater Manchester and we will ensure that those we suspect of having such involvement will face prosecution and be taken from our streets."
Anyone with concerns or information about suspicious activity should report it to police online, if able, at www.gmp.police.uk or via 101. Always call 999 in an emergency.
Details can be passed anonymously to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
this is what i had been doing for the past 3 days. i'm carving this dolorosa for a very meticulous costumer which mang rey introduced me to.
last march i loss a dear friend. the head of the CCP's visual arts department. his sudden passing away made a deep void in my heart. i told mang rey that it is not my forte doing dolorosas. but i suddenly realized that it is because i am not good in greaving. but realization set in and naisip ko na why not channel my grief into this sculpture.
maybe i could create a very accurate depiction of the greaf of the blessed virgin when she (like i) loss someone so dear. her Son.
he was my mentor, a dear friend and he was the one who re-instilled in me the passion for the arts.
wherever you are Sid, this is dedicated in your loving memory.
Maastricht, 17 September 2016.
NS ordered 58 Stadler FLIRT EMUs in April 2015 to cover a shortage of trains expected from January 2017. These were built in Siedlice in Poland with the first set arriving in April 2016. Authorisation was needed before the trains could enter service in December 2016, with many trains often failing during test runs and causing problems for regular trains. Fortunately they are now in regular service and seem to have recovered from their teething troubles.
Here many sets are seen stabled at Maastricht, wating for authorisation or for NS to accept them into their fleet.
No, nor what you might think but my car was due for its annual service and MOT. On Monday I found that the battery was completely flat when I checked to see if car was OK. Ended up using my battery charger and it was still not fully charged by 11pm, so yesterday morning, I was awakened at 5 am by Rio who wanted to go out then once he was safely back, I gave the car another couple of hours before reconnecting battery and lo and behold it started first time. After it had been collected, I spent the day defrosting the freezer in the garage and after it was returned tried to have an easy night, till my computer decided it was going to upgrade to the latest edition of Windows, which took around 2 hours, so my early night became a late one.
Today is foggy so I'm staying put. Come round if you're able to
This parachute was recovered from the outer Thames Estuary during dredging for the DP World London Gateway project.
To find out more about this project follow this link www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/location/88631/london-gateway
This year, the monarchs seem to be doing a LOT better than they were last year when it was hard to find any. I hope that people planting more milkweed this year will further contribute to stablilizing the numbers.
Using a screen when draining will help you reclaim any leftover pulp, which can be squeezed out and left to dry. When you make paper later, this pulp can be broken up and re-blended.
Pentax MX-1
I took this picture after we brought Rooster back from the emergency vet in Linn Creek. Roostie-boy tried to eat a hook smothered in stinky catfish bait, and it didn't really work out too well. He slept off the anesthesia and is doing fine. More pictures from the veterinarian's floor coming soon. ;-)
I went to a professional photo lab and I finally recovered almost all the images I took on my first tour with the new camera, A700.
This is one of the first shots :-)
No, nor what you might think but my car was due for its annual service and MOT. On Monday I found that the battery was completely flat when I checked to see if car was OK. Ended up using my battery charger and it was still not fully charged by 11pm, so yesterday morning, I was awakened at 5 am by Rio who wanted to go out then once he was safely back, I gave the car another couple of hours before reconnecting battery and lo and behold it started first time. After it had been collected, I spent the day defrosting the freezer in the garage and after it was returned tried to have an easy night, till my computer decided it was going to upgrade to the latest edition of Windows, which took around 2 hours, so my early night became a late one.
Today is foggy so I'm staying put. Come round if you're able to
Kennel cough almost turned to be pneumonia, but with lots of love and care, Brando got better and better every day.
Jerusalem, chartered-bus drivers sit, together, in the baggage compartment, of one of their buses, while waiting for their passengers, to return from the concert, to which they transported them.
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