Dale Cregan appears in court as police vow: "We will see that justice is done" The proceedings were held amid a ring of steel as officers in high-visibility yellow jackets stood guard on street corners around the city centre building. Inside the court complex, armed officers wearing dark glasses, black uniforms and carrying Heckler and Koch machine guns stood guard. Later officers who had attended the hearing travelled to lay flowers close to where their colleagues with Greater Manchester Police were gunned down. Grim faced, the group of officers stood reading the messages attached to the ever-growing number of floral tributes. They placed their own bouquet, with a note attached that read: "Rest in Peace. We will see that justice is done. Later in the day, David Cameron arrived at the headquarters of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) where he had private talks with the families of the two policewomen together. The Prime Minister said: "I wanted to come here to Manchester myself to pay my own personal respects to the two officers, the women police officers, who fell in the line of duty. I think the whole country is profoundly shocked by what has happened and it is right we praise the work that they did and remember all they have done.