§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether specific changes of procedure have been introduced to improve the security of information from unauthorised use or disclosure that arise from the prosecution of Mr. C. Gumbrell for use of information from the police national computer for unauthorised purposes.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggI understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that he has not considered it necessary at this stage to introduce any futher improvements in procedures to protect information available to the Metropolitan police from the police national computer, as a result of the prosecution of Mr. C. Gumbrell. The force is already able to trace the originating officer for all inquiries to the PNC from terminals in the force and indeed this facility was used in the case of Mr. Gumbrell. The procedures, however, are kept under constant review and in this task the force has the assistance of the Home Officer adviser on the protection of data held on the PNC.