HC Deb 24 July 1996 vol 282 c470W
Mr. Robert McCartney

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what access the Royal Ulster Constabulary has to the Phoenix criminal record system used in Great Britain; and what is the Northern Ireland equivalent of that system. [39581]

Sir John Wheeler

The Royal Ulster Constabulary, through designated offices, can access the Phoenix criminal record system to:

  1. (i) search and extract conviction details; and
  2. (ii) enter and extract details of wanted or missing persons.

Criminal records within the RUC are retained on computer; the system is called CIRS—criminal information retrieval system.