(BBC) The emergency services’ response to the Manchester Arena attack was “commendable” and “almost faultless,” a police chief has said.
Ch Insp Dale Sexton, from Greater Manchester Police (GMP), was the force duty officer in the control room.
He told the inquiry into the 2017 bombing that “everyone tried and did their absolute best on that night.”
But he admitted there were failures in joint working in the very early stages and accepted he was partly responsible.
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at about 22:30 BST on 22 May 2017.
