Some ten years ago, as a criminologist at Manchester University, I was co-author of a major study on police-held criminal records systems in England and Wales and in the United States. In the book, we highlighted the concerns of many about the slowness of the system, the accuracy of information held (at that time by the police), its completeness and confidentiality, and so on.
Indeed, things were perceived to be so bad in the late 1980s that the Home Affairs Select Committee launched an inquiry, where in evidence the system was described as 'being in a terrifying condition of inaccuracy'.
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