Police investigation into an incident in which a 16-year-old girl claimed that she was raped by a male detainee while being held at the Miri police station lock-up on Jan 9 found that closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage was unavailable.

Sarawak police commissioner Aidi Ismail said he had instructed his deputy Fisol Salleh to coordinate an internal investigation and the results would be known this week.

“There is a CCTV camera installed in the lock-up, but it does not have recording function and it can only be monitored by personnel on duty...