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UK: 100 police workers in breach of data protection

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Dissent

Coreena Ford reports:

A police officer is suspected of using a force computer to pass classified information onto criminals, the Sunday Sun can reveal.

The community support officer – who was sacked – is one of no less than 100 North officers and civilian staff to breach data protection laws for their own use over the last two years.

Searching for private information about specific individuals, checking car records and giving information to a member of the public are just three other examples of police trawling through computers for their own ends.
We have discovered six officers from the region’s forces have been booted out of their jobs for breaking the rules, while 10 others quit.

Two were cautioned for their actions and three from Cumbria – two of whom are police officers – have landed themselves in court.

Read more in the Sunday Sun.

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