Crime computer has 1.2m records missing: Pre-1995 offences are stored only on microfiche | Mail Online
A backlog of 1.2million criminal records that have not been logged on to the Police National Computer was last night branded a ‘ticking time bomb’.
The details of convictions which date from before 1995 are still stored on an antiquated microfiche system.
To access a file, officers must pay a £100 fee to the police quango the National Policing Improvement Agency.
Ignoring the fact that the police have to pay some vile quango £100 to access what must be their own data, 1.2m records is nothing, a few Bobs in India could key these into a database and the database wouldn't exactly be the most complex IT system in the world to get round this.
Jeez, this must be a hangover from a New Labour policy.
A backlog of 1.2million criminal records that have not been logged on to the Police National Computer was last night branded a ‘ticking time bomb’.
The details of convictions which date from before 1995 are still stored on an antiquated microfiche system.
To access a file, officers must pay a £100 fee to the police quango the National Policing Improvement Agency.
Ignoring the fact that the police have to pay some vile quango £100 to access what must be their own data, 1.2m records is nothing, a few Bobs in India could key these into a database and the database wouldn't exactly be the most complex IT system in the world to get round this.
Jeez, this must be a hangover from a New Labour policy.
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