Nineteen members of staff at Derbyshire police have breached data protection rules in the last three years by accessing information they were not allowed to see.
One officer searched the force database to find information logged about his relationship with an illegal immigrant. He resigned before misconduct proceedings could take place
Read more from the Derby Telegraph, whose freedom of information request obtained the data.
According to their findings, only one member of staff was prosecuted and convicted of criminal offenses. That’s out of 33 complaints – 14 of which were withdrawn or dropped for lack of evidence.
So… does 1 out of 19 or one out of 33 inspire confidence that the police are taking this problem seriously enough? Does the public want the police disciplined or do they want them fired and prosecuted?
Lack of evidence? I take it the audit logs must have been either erased or the audit logging is/was just purely pathetic. What does it matter if an individual resigns before he can b brought up on formal internal charges? Can’t he be prosecuted because he broke the law, like in a regular court ? I am sure he would sing like a Lark so his ILLEGAL honey doesn’t get the deportation boot.
It seems like they just want to sweep this one under the rug – Lack of evidence – HA ! Lack of upper chain of command discipline and morals. Lack of due care and due diligence. I say boot them all and put some younger peeps in there to make a change. Seems like any changes will be a vast improvement.