Home Office admits 15,000 people deleted from police records
by Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent from on (#5DY1E)
Policing minister, Kit Malthouse, reveals figures a month after data blunder was first revealed
A blunder led to the records of more than 15,000 people being deleted in their entirety from the Police National Computer, the Home Office has admitted. News of the data loss emerged last month, but on Monday the government put numbers on what had been erased.
The policing minister, Kit Malthouse, said in a written statement that a total of 209,550 offence records relating to 112,697 individuals had been deleted from the PNC, which is run by the Home Office and used by forces across the UK. That included the entire records of 15,089 people.
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