Private service for GMP chief Michael Todd

A private funeral service for Greater Manchester Police (GMP) chief Michael Todd took place last week.

The service for family and close friends was held in the village church near the home he shared with his wife, Carolyn, and their three children in Halam, Nottinghamshire.

Mr Todd, 50, will be publicly honoured by GMP and civic leaders at a memorial service at Manchester Cathedral on Friday April 11.

Mr Todd disappeared on the evening of Monday March 10, after speaking of personal troubles to senior colleagues.

His body was found on Mount Snowdon, North Wales, the next day, with a bottle of gin at his side. Tests showed he was over the legal drink-drive limit, but the exact cause of death, an apparent suicide, has not been established.

An inquest has been opened and adjourned.

Mr Todd, one of Britain’s leading police officers and once tipped for the top job at Scotland Yard, was widely regarded as one of the country’s most talented senior officers.

Since his death, revelations have come to light concerning his private life which is to be investigated by officers from West Midlands Police in order to make sure it had no impact on his professional performance as a chief constable.

nPolice officers in Dorset held a minute’s silence as hundreds of people gathered for the funeral of Inspector Neil Munro.

The body of the father-of-one was found washed ashore at Sandbanks on March 13. It emerged that he suffered from chronic depression.

Police officers and staff formed a guard of honour as his coffin was taken into the large chapel at Bournemouth Crematorium. The minute’s silence was held across all Dorset Police buildings.