§ Mr. Leslie Huckfieldasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for the consolidation of all active area criminal warrants/wants in one regional criminal activity data bank with capability to retrieve all facets of case history;
(2) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for cross-indexing the criminal data bank so it may be accessed by, respectively, subject's name, alias, nickname, vehicle licence number, vehicle identification number, street name and residence number, and report number of arrest/criminal identification number;
(3) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for response within 10 seconds to information needs of the officer in the street;
(4) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for information to district officers and intelligence officers on movements of organised crime subjects;
366W(5) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for follow-up information to the local parole officers on persons interviewed by the district officers and identified by the computer to be in parole status;
(6) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for capability to extract potential suspects based on classification of latent fingerprints from the crime scenes;
(7) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for statistical data of high vehicle accident areas so that commanders may realign patrol forces to increase enforcement in high accident areas;
(8) What provision is made on the National Police Computer for preparation of a list of wanted persons by residence address within beat for use by the district officer;
(9) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for provision of automated abstract criminal records for informational use and investigative purposes;
(10) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for provision of a summary of investigation work by case, by category, or work within cases, &c.;
(11) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for development of current payroll budgetary information and projected cost of specific profits to the police administrator;
(12) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for capability to search computerised files by method of operation or method of commission of a crime incident in an effort to identify likely suspects based on previously established criminal patterns;
(13) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for through implementation of a computerised planning model with the ability to simulate new police programmes and determine accurately the cost factors and resource requirements as far as 10 years in advance;
(14) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for daily recording of crime indexes and reporting of these indexes to each patrol division commander;
367W(15) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for time reporting and analysis of specialists' work levels in a crime laboratory centre;
(16) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for the prediction with 95 per cent. accuracy of calls on the police for their services within each police reporting area;
(17) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for computerised access to an index of all accidents, traffic/parking tickets, and offences;
(18) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for access to vehicle licence registration and driver's licence history;
(19) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for a daily crime summary report and a daily clearance summary report, which allow patrol officers the opportunity to evaluate crime trends and police effectiveness on a daily basis;
(20) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for on-line data entry of all offence, arrest, accident, traffic, and dispatch statistics as well as on-line payroll entry, handling punching and tabulating of statistics;
(21) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for criminal identification number, Criminal Investigation Department number and fingerprint classification as additional identifiers;
(22) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for production of traffic enforcement information, which allows for evaluation of selective enforcement and enforcement index;
(23) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for traffic accident information which allows for designation of locations that need selective enforcement and the evaluation of selective enforcement patrol;
(24) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for calculation of crime information which allows for analysis of related problems within the city;
(25) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for production of robbery evaluation information, which is utilised to prepare monthly reports for police commissioners;
368W(26) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for fulfilment of many specialised requests for historical data related to specific crimes and offences by location;
(27) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for on-line entry of cases filed by the prosecution in magistrate and circuit courts;
(28) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for preparation and printing of magistrate court dockets and witness notification cards;
(29) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for automatic preparation of warrants for arrest of citizens through on-line entry of cases when failure to report to court is involved;
(30) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for production of a report for information for judges which reflects information from police, probation, &c.;
(31) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for printing of arraignments for juvenile courts;
(32) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for project patterns of criminal behaviour that harbour such behaviour;
(33) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for assistance in the analysis of land usage and avoiding development of unfavourable environmental conditions that promote and foster crime or conflict;
(34) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for analysis of trends that, if not altered, will result in future social problems;
(35) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for creation of systems to deal with unacceptable behaviour patterns or before crimes or accidents are caused;
(36) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for analysis of treatment, correctional programmes and behaviour patterns of individuals to determine the success of the correctional system;
(37) what provision is made on the National Police Computer for development of individual patterns of persons having trouble functioning in society.
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§ Mr. CarlisleThese Questions appear to be based on some misunderstanding of the purpose of the police national computer. This computer system is designed to provide operational support by giving police over the whole country access to central records within a matter of minutes. It is not designed for dealing with police administration or local crime or vehicle accident statistics, or for exploring the sociological aspects of crime, which are referred to in some of the Questions.
The information to be stored is broadly the same as that already held at the central and regional criminal record offices; it will include details of stolen motor vehicles, an index to the main fingerprint collection, records of wanted and missing persons and the criminal names index. There will also be a limited amount of information from motor taxation records and, at a later stage, comprehensive central records of disqualified drivers and persons subject to suspended sentences. The feasibility of storing other information, for example about methods of operation, is being explored.