In message <004f01c47f85$733ecd10$103468d5@com>, at 10:27:35 on Wed, 11
Aug 2004, Ian Welton <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Many investigations are of a short duration. How do you become aware of when
>an investigation is completed. Do you maintain a link with the police, do
>they inform you, or do you set a specific time limit within your
>organisation, say: an exemption was valid for only one week/month after it
>was claimed?
The simplest thing would be for you to destroy the data that referred to
the police enquiry, when you thought it was no longer relevant. Some
would say that you should be doing that anyway. Which makes one wonder -
what was the purpose of keeping the data in the first place? Is it just
so when the police ask a second time you can say "but we told you this
last week"? What other purpose might be fulfilled by keeping a record on
the customer's file?
--
Roland Perry
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