No doubt if the Police were not retaining details of people reporting crimes
and then it came to light they had been sent to dozens of hoax calls with no
means to trace the caller as no details had been kept the press would also
have been slating them!!!
Damned if they do and damned if they don't but providing they are
maintaining the database appropriately I see no issue.
Lee Gardiner
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer
Operational Risk Management
Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service
Service Headquarters
Garstang Road
Fulwood
Preston
PR2 3LH
01772 866903
-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn Howard [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 August 2010 13:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Police Database
This article sounds typical of a local newspaper beefing up a non-story.
That the police record details of individuals reporting crime sounds like a
normal and necessary part of their policing function, providing of course
the database is kept in line with the DPA principles. That is not the same
as the creation and retention of thousands of intelligence files on innocent
people.
Carolyn Howard
Solicitor
Leicester City Council
email: [log in to unmask]
ext: 29 6498
tel: 0116 252 6498
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>>> Ibrahim Hasan <[log in to unmask]> 12/08/2010 12:46 >>>
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8324612.Files_on_thousands_of_innocent_peopl
e_held_on_police_database/
TENS of thousands of people who have never even been linked with an offence
are on a secret North Yorkshire Police database, The Press can reveal.
Details of more than 180,000 people are on the force's information
management system, despite only a fraction being even suspected of any
crime.
Privacy campaigners have condemned the force, after an investigation by The
Press found information on innocent informants was stored along with that of
suspects and vulnerable complainants.
The database contains information on 38,259 suspects and 181,917 people who
have simply reported information.
Regards
Ibrahim Hasan
Solicitor and Trainer
www.informationlaw.org.uk
Follow me on Twitter @ActNowTraining
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