§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many national indexes are held by the police or his Department, other than those relating to drugs and football hooliganism.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe Department holds the following national indexes (including all national police indexes):
Prison service
- Inmate information system (a national register of prison inmates)1
- Category A prisoners1
- Life sentence prisoner index1
Immigration service
Suspect index (contains details of people whom it is considered essential to identify at the ports because, for example, they have been deported or are involved in criminal activity, or because they have an adverse immigration history)
Port precautions index (used in embarkation control to assist in prevention of children being removed in contravention of a court order or against the wishes of one parent)
Intelligence unit index (contains details of people known or suspected of abuses of the immigration laws and details of suspect documents. It also includes details of people refused leave to enter or refused entry clearance)
Police department
- Criminal names index (index to the criminal records)
- Index to the national fingerprint collection
- Wanted/missing persons index
- Disqualified drivers index
- Vehicle owners index
- Vehicles reports index (stolen, suspect vehicles)
- Stolen property index (mainly plant, vehicles)
Obscene publications squad index (persons convicted of offences under the Obscene Publications Act 1959, the Protection of Children Act 1978, the Criminal Justice Act 361W 1988, the Sexual Offences Act 1956 and the Customs Consolidation Act 1876. The index also includes information regarding persons suspected of being associated with child pornography. The index is held by the Metropolitan police)
Animal rights national index (collates and disseminates information on animal rights extremism)
Statistical department
Offenders index1 (record of offenders convicted of standard list offences recorded since 1963)
Homicide index (a record of each case of reported homicide)
Probation index1 (persons subject to supervision by the probation service—including those subject to community service orders)
Mentally disordered offenders index1 (a record of persons in psychiatric hospitals who are subject to hospital orders with restrictions on discharge or who have been transferred from prison service establishments)
United Kingdom Passport agency
United Kingdom passports index (record of all passports issued by the United Kingdom passport offices and by Foreign and Commonwealth Office posts overseas)
Warning list (to ensure that certain passport applications receive particular attention)
Others
Voluntary organisations (those in receipt of Government funding)
Index of exempted dogs (owners of pit bull terriers and other specified breeds which have their dogs exempted from the controls of the Dangerous Dogs Act (1991)).
1 Applies only to England and Wales.