I was only playing Devil's Advocate!!!! Stop getting at me!!
Fiona Musgrave
IT Team Principal/DP Officer
Carlisle City Council
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> Sent: 28 November 2001 11:52
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Car hire issue...
>
> In a message dated 28/11/2001 11:16:06 GMT Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << What if a crime comes to light in a years time, using that van?? Would
> that
> not then be justified. Just a thought (thinking about some appeals on
> Crimewatch and the like)!! >>
> --------------
> Data cannot be held for this purpose (just in case) by anyone other than
> the
> police or under a particular statute. Many crimes remain unsolved because
> no
> evidence exists because it has been deleted, if everyone kept everything
> for
> ever, just in case, there would be no storage space left for normal
> processing. Where a crime is caught on camera, the tapes/hard disks come
> under PACE rules and can be kept for evidence purposes well beyond the
> normal
> retention rules for DPA.
>
> Appeals on Crimewatch using retained video footage are useful but the
> crime
> is obvious and have been retained under PACE but "just in case" is not
> sufficient justification for keeping video images indefinitely. Besides,
> this would mean that hundreds or thousands of finnocent people would have
> their details kept for no reason or purpose. Surely the innocent people
> would gladly respond to the appeal "did you rent this van in 1999?" Then
> the
> ones who didn't see Crimewatch that week can be arrested . . . . only
> joking!!
>
> Maybe we should name and shame the van hire company for not complying with
> the Code of Practice on CCTV issued by the OIC.
>
>
> Ian Buckland
> MD
> Keep IT Legal Ltd
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