Greater Manchester Police denies withholding detention footage related to allegations women faced unjustified strip-searches
Police have not "deliberately" withheld CCTV footage related to allegations that women faced unjustified strip-searches, a senior officer has said.
Mr Burnham, who also acts as the area's police and crime commissioner, previously confirmed there were two hours of police footage "missing" from the period of the detention of one of the women. GMP previously said it had twice referred the allegations to the Independent Office for Police Conduct .Mr Woods said the force were trying to establish if the "outstanding hours" could be recovered by "digital forensics professionals"
"At this time, we have been unable to recover two one-hour segments of the CCTV footage from the custody cell," he said.He said the footage was "burnt on to four discs in hour-long segments" and one disc had "corrupted, but files were recovered by the digital investigation unit".
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