The passing of sensitive personal information between one police force and another was not a decision subject to obligations which made it subject to judicial review. Information falling short of convictions could properly be passed, and information passed between police forces rather than between police forces and other authorities was subject to lesser controls. There was no breach of the Data Protection Acts. With regard to the earlier Act the data was processed manually, and for both, the information passed was for the purposes of prevention and detection of crime. Disclosures outside the police force were required to pass the test of being to satisfy a pressing need.
Citations:
Times 07-Nov-2000
Statutes:
Data Protection Act 1984, Data Protection Act 1998
Police, Judicial Review, Information
Updated: 09 April 2022; Ref: scu.85184