Hi all,
How are people on this list dealing with requests from police officers for personal data, or to confirm 'someone works at your organisation' and so on?
We received a request yesterday from what looks like a police officer from Camden. When I phoned the number to check this I got put through to Islington CID. They would not confirm or deny that the email came from a bona fide police officer. I am not prepared to pass on personal data on the basis of one email if I cannot validate the source.
We very rarely receive such requests (in fact this is the first one I can remember in over five years). I would prefer that they came from the data protection team at the Met Police rather than individual officers.
It would be useful to know what other people do.
We do have a CCTV control room but there is an existing process and protocol with the local police should they make requests for footage.
thanks + rgds
Danny
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