By Kim Pilling, Press Association Thursday, 29 January 2009
A targeted operation has led to a massive reduction in gang crime, a police force said today.
The number of gang-related shootings in the Great Manchester region fell 92 per cent over the past year since the introduction of the force's Operation Cougar.
For the first time in a decade there was not a single firearms murder, Greater Manchester Police added.
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