Victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse in Greater Manchester will benefit from a new technology being trialled which will see them allowed to keep their mobile phones during police investigations.
GMP have purchased a number of 'Odyssey' devices, which will allow specially trained police officers, supported by forensic experts, to extract evidence from devices within a set time period.
The trial comes at a time when rape convictions in England are woefully low. Staggering statistics published by the Government's End-to-End Rape Review in 2021 revealed that just 1.6pc of rape cases reported to the police resulted in someone being charged.
