Firstly, I want to note that I am not a member of Greater Manchester Police, So I can only answer based on my own experiences.
(1) Why did two officers die?
Because they were not expecting what they were confronted with. Every day in the Police we deal with varying levels of situations. We prepare for the worst, we prepare for hostility and violence, but what we often find is that the situations we don’t expect to be violent are the ones that turn out the worst.
I do not know what was reported to the control centre, whether it was a suspects on premises committing the burglary or whether it was a retrospective report of burglary. If it was the former then I would have expected there would have been more officers attending such as a Dog unit or at least another double crewed car, In the Police we want to lock up the bad guys, so when we get a report of someone committing a burglary red handed we aim to get there as quick as we can with as much as we can. It may have been that they happened to be the first...
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