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  • 5/27/2025
Merseyside Police praised for quickly dismissing speculation over Liverpool crashSource: BBC
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00:00In all honesty there's a lot of speculation and that was part of the problem because whilst there were pictures that were beamed out all over the world, the speculation was that it was part of something that was much bigger, there were reports in social media that there was another attack on the other end of the city, so all those things caused real consternation but the police acted very, very quickly, I mean really swiftly to put paid to some of that speculation and I don't think it's worth us speculating on what might have happened with the driver.
00:29That's what I wanted to ask you about, how important was it because of course we've seen Merseyside police deal with big horrible incidents previously, how important was it that that information, all the information that they had was released very, very quickly, communicated very clearly?
00:45Well that was one of my first concerns that we needed to get the story out quickly because if there's a vacuum we know there are some elements that will try to inflame the situation and to create that speculation.

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