§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many accesses there have been to each of the indexes of the Police National Computer over the last year; and how many of these retrieved data from more than one index.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe total number of accesses to each of the indices of the police national computer in the year to October 1987 was as follows:
Index Number of accesses 1 Stolen and suspect vehicles 19,397,934 2 Vehicle owners 3 Chassis/engine numbers 645,624 4 Fingerprints 217,953 5 Fingerprints—Scenes of crime 13,697 6 Criminal names 10 7 Wanted/missing persons 1,691,799 8 Disqualified drivers 716,259 9 Convictions 357,406 10 Major investigations 134,365 11 Crime pattern analysis 147,906 There have also been the following joint accesses:
Number To indices 6, 7 and 9 1,616,713 To indices 6, 7, 8 and 9 6,024,344 To indices 4, 6 and 9 524,680 To indices 6 and 9 1,135,707 1 All accesses to the criminal names index are now shown as joint accesses in the above table, as requests for criminal names information will in addition automatically generate information from the convictions application.