It turns out that armed officers were not equipped with bodycams, only certain unarmed officers were. However, the Inquiry report does not specify how many unarmed officers wore bodycams or which specific officers wore them. Also, I think at least one of the TravelSafe officers had a bodycam on when he ran for the City Room.
No details are provided in the Inquiry report regarding what was seen on the bodycam footage - this was deemed too graphic for public consumption, and like all other primary empirical evidence relating to injuries was kept hidden from the public.
I don't know much about bodycams in terms of the accuracy of their timestamps and the integrity of their footage. In 2017, would they have been automatically calibrated to the correct time, like mobile phones?
Professional crime scene photographs are not mentioned at the Inquiry report. They should have been what guaranteed image integrity, at least of the aftermath once casualties had been removed. That doesn't help with establishing the timeline, though.
Correction - section 18.8 of the Inquiry report specifies that Operation Manteline spent "many hundreds of hours spent analysing the footage from 90 CCTV cameras, from 52 body-worn video cameras and from mobile phones."
Thanks for putting this together.
If I may, I'd like a further comment regarding the timelines.
It seems to me that police , and other, bodycam footage would be more likely to have verifiable timestamps.
I'm wary of jumping to conclusions hence a comment from yourself on the absence, accuracy, and integrity of any bodycam footage would be welcome.
You're welcome.
It turns out that armed officers were not equipped with bodycams, only certain unarmed officers were. However, the Inquiry report does not specify how many unarmed officers wore bodycams or which specific officers wore them. Also, I think at least one of the TravelSafe officers had a bodycam on when he ran for the City Room.
No details are provided in the Inquiry report regarding what was seen on the bodycam footage - this was deemed too graphic for public consumption, and like all other primary empirical evidence relating to injuries was kept hidden from the public.
I don't know much about bodycams in terms of the accuracy of their timestamps and the integrity of their footage. In 2017, would they have been automatically calibrated to the correct time, like mobile phones?
Professional crime scene photographs are not mentioned at the Inquiry report. They should have been what guaranteed image integrity, at least of the aftermath once casualties had been removed. That doesn't help with establishing the timeline, though.
Correction - section 18.8 of the Inquiry report specifies that Operation Manteline spent "many hundreds of hours spent analysing the footage from 90 CCTV cameras, from 52 body-worn video cameras and from mobile phones."