The Greater Manchester Police was for many years a great part of my life. This site outlines my police service.

This photo of me was taken the day before I retired from the Greater Manchester Police. ©

Hello, my name's Graham.

I retired from the Greater Manchester Police with just short of 20 years service following a neck injury which occurred whilst on duty. This injury required neurosurgery and I much later discovered that it had left me with spinal cord damage.

I was subsequently re-employed by the Greater Manchester Police as a civilian Scenes of Crime Officer, a job for which I was already trained and was in post prior to my initial retirement from the Police. I returned to work in the same office at the same desk but earning about £7000 per annum less.

My condition having initially improved following surgery then deteriorated and I was medically retired for a second time.

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I accepted injury as an occupational hazard. I would rather I wasn't injured, but I accept that I took a risk and lost. A large number of officers are injured and it was a part of the job of which I was well aware.

I have tried to make this site not only informative to visitors but also helpful to others suffering disabilities and there are a large number of disability related contacts and other links I have found useful on the 'Contacts' pages.

Please note, I cannot answer questions from potential recruits as I am now totally out of date with recruiting policies. It is now unlikely that I will be updating this site much in the future.

I would like to express my appreciation to the press both local and national for their assistance in allowing the use of photographs and articles on this site.

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