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| PC Ian Terry death: GMP officers face gross misconduct hearing | PC Ian Terry death: GMP officers face gross misconduct hearing |
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| Two Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers are to face a gross misconduct hearing over the death of an PC who was shot in a training exercise. | |
| PC Ian Terry, 32, from Burnley, Lancashire, was killed in June 2008 during police firearms training. | PC Ian Terry, 32, from Burnley, Lancashire, was killed in June 2008 during police firearms training. |
| An officer who fired the fatal shot and another who organised the training exercise face an internal GMP hearing. | An officer who fired the fatal shot and another who organised the training exercise face an internal GMP hearing. |
| The Independent Police Complaints Commission said a third officer, who has retired, will not face the hearing. | The Independent Police Complaints Commission said a third officer, who has retired, will not face the hearing. |
| The police watchdog conducted an independent investigation into the death. | |
| Unloaded handgun | |
| IPCC Commissioner James Dipple-Johnstone said: "One officer is now outside of the misconduct system having chosen to retire. There is nothing the IPCC can do to stop the officer retiring." | |
| Mr Dipple-Johnstone urged the police to address situations where officers retired while investigations are ongoing. | |
| He said it "does not benefit anyone if officers are perceived to have walked away from disciplinary matters". | |
| PC Terry was carrying an unloaded handgun while playing the role of a criminal fleeing in a car during the exercise. | |
| The father-of-two, who was not wearing body armour, was hit in the chest from a distance of about 12in (30.5cm) by a blank round of specialist ammunition not designed to kill. |