The order, signed by a senior police officer at 12.13pm today, gives Greater Manchester Police extra powers to order people to leave the city and lock them up if they refuse
A dispersal order has been ordered across Manchester city centre following reports that rival gangs of youths were gathering to cause trouble.
The so-called 'section 34' order covers the next 48 hours and police say it is to prevent. Videos circulating on Facebook shows dozens of officers from GMP ordering youths into trains out of the city centre. This afternoon officers enforcing the order around Exchange Square arrested a man on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker.
Superintendent, Phil Spurgeon within GMP’s specialist operations unit said: “We are monitoring and managing a significant increase in footfall across Manchester City Centre and throughout our districts with groups of youth gathering together and causing disturbances.
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