Judith Duffy writes in the Herald: THE genetic profiles of more than 3000 people are being logged by Scottish police forces every single month, according to new statistics. There are now 300,000 DNA profiles being stored. That includes one in 10 Scottish adult males. The figure has been revealed in the first detailed quarterly breakdown [...]
Christopher Hope writes in the Daily Telegraph: The Government is being sued for over £500million by an American defence company which lost a contract for a new immigration computer system last year, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Raytheon was removed from the Government’s £750million e-Borders programme in July 2010 after ministers said its performance had [...]
Ewan Foskett writes in the Royston Crow: THE first camera in the controversial automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) ‘ring of steel’ that will monitor every car that passes through Royston is thought to have been installed and operational. It is the first of seven devices that will be placed around the town, and it is [...]
Jason Lewis writes in the Daily Telegraph: The Metropolitan Police has disclosed that 142 police officers and 66 staff have been disciplined for misusing the national computer system, known as the PNC, in the last 10 years. Of these 29 have been sacked and 16 prosecuted over their actions. The computer system contains five highly [...]
According to the Northampton Chronicle: A MOTORIST from Northampton had his car impounded after an insurance company’s error left police convinced he was driving illegally. Roy Adams, aged 64, of Pleydell Gardens, Far Cotton, was driving past Becket’s Park in Northampton when he was pulled over by police. An officer told him they had been [...]
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