Former senior GMP cop investigated over 'potential misrepresentation of military service'

A senior former GMP officer is being being investigated by the police watchdog over 'potential misrepresentation of his military service'.

Manchester-raised Nick Adderley, the current Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police, is alleged to have misrepresented his past relating to the wearing of war medals.

In a statement responding to the allegations, Mr Adderley said he had always worn his own medals alongside two medals his brothers gave him to wear when one became critically ill and one moved overseas.

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As well as expressing disappointment at what said he were 'leaked' details of a 'very personal family issue', Mr Adderley said he had changed the side of his chest on which he wore his brothers’ medals after seeking advice last week.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had begun an investigation into what it described as concerns about Nick Adderley’s 'potential misrepresentation of his military service'.

Mr Adderley took over as head of the Northamptonshire force in 2018 after joining the police service in 1992 and serving in Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Staffordshire.

At GMP, he was in charge of the Tameside division in 2012 when Dale Cregan, then the centre of a huge nationwide manhunt after slaughtering two gangland rivals, shot dead two of his officers, PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone, after luring them to an address in Mottram-in-Longdendale with a bogus report of a burglary.

In an interview with the M.E.N. a year later he said he felt 'a feeling of responsibility' and 'a bit of fraud' as he had failed in 'looking after your own people'.

When Mr Adderley was moved