(BBC) A police fixation with getting armed units to the Manchester Arena after it was bombed impacted the wider emergency response, an inquiry has heard.
The Manchester Arena inquiry was told the former police control room manager accepted his staff did not communicate well with responders after the blast.
Ch Insp Mike Booth said his belief that staff had enough support to deal with such an attack had been “incorrect.”
He was not on duty on the night of the 2017 attack.
The inquiry has been told that it was the police’s job to inform and update other responders during a major incident, such as the bombing, which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more.
