There were lots of people in the previous thread on this saying the footage was not missing, it just hadn’t been released due to data protection.
It seems it is missing and needs recovering.
This is laughable they expect people to believe this. Yes corruption of data can happen, but that is why there are procedures in place. For example, as soon as she made the request for the data, I’m sure their policy is for the data to be exported, often in two places, and a lock is put on the master source to not overwrite the segment.
Also, if the disk failed, it failed in two random one hour segments, but not in any of the adjacent clips?!
At best, someone should be charged and sacked for negligence or incompetence, at worst, perverting the course of justice. We need to feel safe and secure in our policing, and these incidents undermines the public’s faith.
Speaking as someone who works in IT, although not this specific area, data corruption can and does happen.
The likelihood of 2 files of importance both being corrupted without the disk having been flashing up numerous warnings for days/weeks/months in advance… pretty damn low, in my estimation.
Also, I’m going to be rather surprised if regular backups aren’t taken, and, again, this would most likely have reported errors when trying to backup if the disk was screwed.
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There were lots of people in the previous thread on this saying the footage was not missing, it just hadn’t been released due to data protection.
It seems it is missing and needs recovering.
This is laughable they expect people to believe this. Yes corruption of data can happen, but that is why there are procedures in place. For example, as soon as she made the request for the data, I’m sure their policy is for the data to be exported, often in two places, and a lock is put on the master source to not overwrite the segment.
Also, if the disk failed, it failed in two random one hour segments, but not in any of the adjacent clips?!
At best, someone should be charged and sacked for negligence or incompetence, at worst, perverting the course of justice. We need to feel safe and secure in our policing, and these incidents undermines the public’s faith.
Speaking as someone who works in IT, although not this specific area, data corruption can and does happen.
The likelihood of 2 files of importance both being corrupted without the disk having been flashing up numerous warnings for days/weeks/months in advance… pretty damn low, in my estimation.
Also, I’m going to be rather surprised if regular backups aren’t taken, and, again, this would most likely have reported errors when trying to backup if the disk was screwed.
To say I’m suspicious would be an understatement.