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Marching into action, fresh from a celebration to welcome his newest recruits, this is the moment Greater Manchester's top cop helped make an arrest.

It's highly unusual for a chief constable to get involved with the hard graft of arresting suspects on the ground.

But that was the reality faced by one alleged shoplifter in Prestwich yesterday afternoon (November 6).

Sir Stephen Watson QPM, Greater Manchester Police's chief constable, had been attending a passing out parade - where the force had welcomed a new cohort of officers at the Sedgley Park training centre.

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GMP received reports of a theft from a store on Bury New Road, where a security guard was allegedly assaulted.

While officers chased the

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