§ Mr. Brittanasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will take steps to enable members of the security forces in Northern Ireland who stop vehicles to check immediately by means of a computer system whether the registration number of the vehicle is the correct one, what the name and address of the owner of the vehicle is and whether it is suspected to have been stolen.
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§ Mr. Merlyn Rees,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 16th January 1976; Vol. 903, c. 274], gave the following information
A computer system to assist the security forces in checking suspect vehicles has been in use for some time.
In his statement of 12th January 1976 my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister also informed the House that a new information system, based upon automatic data processing, was to be introduced by the Army in Northern Ireland to handle its existing records on terrorist activities so that information could be processed and acted upon more quickly.