''Tech issue'' wipes 150,000 arrest records.

stapp · Jan 15, 2021

The government has said it is assessing the impact of a "technical issue" that saw a reported 150,000 records deleted from police databases.
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The data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.
It is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55672194

Dermot7 · Jan 16, 2021

The UK home secretary, Priti Patel, is coming under pressure to account for the mass deletion of 150,000 arrest records from a crucial police databases.

Fingerprint, DNA and arrest history records were deleted, which could allow offenders to go free because evidence from crime scenes will not be flagged on the Police National Computer (PNC).
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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...re-as-150000-police-records-accidentally-lost

Another fine mess? What next, dear oh dear?

Article appears updated, later on Friday, including other details:

A letter sent to senior officers on the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) on Friday from deputy chief constable Naveed Malik, lead for the organisation on the PNC, outlines the scale of records affected: “In PNC approximately 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 person records have potentially been deleted in error. In terms of understanding the potential linkage between records, a one-person record can have multiple arrest records and one arrest record can have multiple offences linked to it.”
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plat · Jan 15, 2021

That agency should start keeping multiple backups in storage. It's less costly than big mistakes and ransomware.

I can't believe this.

stapp · Jan 16, 2021

And the figure rises.

The National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.
The Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.
Data including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories were wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55684320

Dermot7 · Jan 16, 2021

Priti Patel is under mounting pressure to give a full account of a police computer error, which may have affected more than 400,000 crime records.

The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, the former director of public prosecutions, highlighted the gravity of the issue on Saturday and that some of the lost files pertained to live investigations. He urged the home secretary to take responsibility for the fiasco.
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Priti Patel faces growing pressure over deletion of police records | Priti Patel | The Guardian

Dermot7 · Feb 8, 2021

A blunder led to the records of more than 15,000 people being deleted in their entirety from the Police National Computer, the Home Office has admitted. News of the data loss emerged last month, but on Monday the government put numbers on what had been erased.

The policing minister, Kit Malthouse, said in a written statement that a total of 209,550 offence records relating to 112,697 individuals had been deleted from the PNC, which is run by the Home Office and used by forces across the UK. That included the entire records of 15,089 people.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...mits-15000-people-deleted-from-police-records

chrcol · Feb 9, 2021

The obvious question why they had no backups?

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