Crime victims' data lost in post

[Jon Turner <jjturner () gmail com>]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/wales_politics/7935210.stm

*The personal details of more than 2,300 crime victims were lost in the post
by Gwent Police, BBC Wales has discovered.*

A CD went missing in May 2007, but the force said those affected were not
told because it was decided their details could not be accessed.

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to the four Welsh forces also
uncovered cases of staff using police national computers without
authorisation.

South Wales Police were the only force which refused to release information.


BBC Wales has referred South Wales Police's refusal to give details of
security breaches to the information commissioner's office, which also rules
on whether public bodies are implementing the freedom of information law
properly.

Gwent Police said its CD had been sent to another organisation but, while
the envelope arrived, the disc was missing.
It contained details of victims of theft, burglary and other offences, and
was password-protected but not encrypted.
The victims of crime whose details were held on the CD were not told of the
loss because "it was deemed that this information could not have been
accessed," the force said.

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