Serving Greater Manchester Police officers have claimed soaring arrest rates are leading to 'intolerable' conditions for those in custody.
The allegations were aired tonight by Channel 4 News, with one woman who was arrested claiming she was only given a blanket an hour and a half after she was strip-searched.
And the force also faced allegations from the programme's investigation that a 'disproportionate numbers of arrests, some on spurious grounds' have been made as figures rise sharply.
