Police officer frustrated by ambulance service response on night of Manchester Arena bombing, public inquiry told
Another officer said he didn t have adequate first aid training for an incident of the Arena attack s magnitude
First responders carry advertising hoardings as makeshift stretchers to victims (Image: Arena Inquiry)
A police officer who was at the scene three minutes after the Manchester Arena bomb detonated told the public inquiry into the atrocity he felt frustration on the night by the response of the ambulance service.
British Transport Police (BTP) Sergeant Matthew Martin, then a constable, was in a patrol car on Deansgate near the Hilton Hotel with a colleague when they heard a police call for urgent assistance .