Essex Police staff resign over illegal database access


According to Information Age:

Eight employees of Essex Police, including three police officers, have resigned after allegedly accessing the personal records of citizens contained in the Police National Computer.

One of the officers and a community support officer face criminal charges of gross misconduct for illegally accessing and sharing the data.

Essex Police analysed the data access histories of all 5,500 of its employees after it emerged that confidential data had been shared with the public, the East Anglian Daily Times reported yesterday.