Britons to have names on police database

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One in four Britons to have names on police database
A quarter of Britain’s population will have their names logged on a new police database despite millions of those having had no convictions, it has emerged.

More than 12,000 users from Britain’s police forces and law enforcement agencies will share intelligence on criminals, suspects and those with criminal links when the Police National Database (PND) goes live next week.
But civil liberties campaigners have called for safeguards to ensure information does not get into the wrong hands, and that those with no criminal connections do not appear on the database.
The £75million PND was set up after the 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire. It is being updated by all 43 forces in England and Wales, the eight forces in Scotland, the British Transport Police and the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Of the 15million people on the database, 6million will have a criminal conviction.
In some cases, victims’ names will also be included but not witnesses – unless they are also suspects or associates.
It is hoped the PND will stop people such as Soham killer Ian Huntley, who had been accused of rape and having sex with underage girls in the past.
He slipped through the net when he moved from Humberside to Cambridgeshire and got a job as a school caretaker.
But Daniel Hamilton, director of civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, said: ‘The police need to give the public a cast iron guarantee that innocent people’s details will never make their way on to this database.’
David Davis MP added: ‘This database needs to be extremely tightly controlled.’


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I think mine is on there. I argued with them once and they pretended I looked like a major SOmali criminal. So they had to conveniently take my fingerprints.