Top cops slammed over failure to declare Nicola Bulley a 'critical incident'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The review found the media and engagement team believed senior officers failed to factor the exceptionally high media and public interest in the investigation in the decision making despite the fact it should have obvious.
46% : "Not declaring a critical incident, and not releasing more information about the investigation, hampered Lancashire Constabulary's ability to control the narrative and undermined public confidence."
44% : In this case, public confidence in Lancashire Constabulary was likely to have been damaged largely because they lost control of the media and social media narrative.
42% : Among the issues cited was a failure to declare the investigation a critical incident as public confidence in the investigation was rapidly being lost.
37% : READ MORE:Monster posing as taxi driver lured vulnerable women to rape them after nights out Rock FM loses last Lancashire-only show as merger announcedThe delayed decision to declare a critical incident directly caused various challenges, the report observed, and was done as a result of a failure to recognise the rapid speed at which public confidence was being lost in the police.

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