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14:26:48 on Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Legal Compliance at KCL
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>I was wondering if many of the other organisations often receive requests
>under section 29 of the DPA.
>
>If so, I would just like to see what your views are, and whether you feel
>this moves some of the administrative burden for criminal investigations
>onto the public sector. How appropriate do you feel this is, that
>certain 'low level' investigations are undertaken by persons who have
>otherwise nothing to do with the Police (I hope).
The police will say it's all about "handing over evidence". Perhaps
you'll have seen 1950's detective movies where they visit every tailor
in a city to find out from their records who was sold the exact tweed
jacket in which the murder weapon was wrapped when discarded. Modern
life simply has more data. But you perhaps shouldn't hand it over unless
you are sure it's because a specific enquiry needs it.
--
Roland Perry
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