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Coppers admit data cock-up
RED-FACED KENT COPPERS have said they are taking "remedial action" after the Information Commissioner's Office found it in breach of the Data Protection Act.
The watchdog barked that Kent police policies and procedures regarding the transportation and storage of personal information away from the office were "limited".
Limited is a polite way of saying "inadequate". It was commenting on a case where documents containing confidential personal information were stolen from the boot of a police officer's car while it was parked overnight at a residential address.
Fortunately the information was given back to the police after a member of the public found it in a nearby street.
The copper had not used his secure briefcase to transport the papers, nor had he been provided with a secure storage facility at his home.
Adrian Leppard, temporary Chief Constable of the Kent police, has apparently signed a formal undertaking to ensure that staff whose roles require them to have access to confidential information outside the office are provided with secure transportation and storage facilities.
The rules covering the transportation, storage and use of personal and protectively marked information will also be clarified, and all staff will be made aware of their requirements. µ
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so the copper had documents from work in his personal vehicle.
To resolve this security issue, all coppers will have to have a safe in their personal vehicles?
This , imo , means that it is no longer a personal vehicle, but a work vehicle. And that the plod has to pay him for the use of his car , or provide him with a secure car. which if he uses it to drive home with, he will have to partly pay for.
However you look at this, its a bloody shambles and officers should simply not be taking this kind of material home with them.There is no need for it.
I think you need to look again... No where does it say this was a company vehicle? Police officers are allowed personal vehicles you know?
"...stolen from the boot of a police officer's car while it was parked overnight at a residential address."
I trust that this officer is paying the tax for having the private use of a company vehicle?
(http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/cars/index.htm)