Stalking protection orders
The government intends to strengthen the use of stalking protection orders as part of its plan to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.
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Data protection and the police (81 KB , PDF)
The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), including its exemptions, applies to the police. Section 29 of the Act details the “crime and taxation” exemption which allows personal data either to be processed or withheld from the data subject for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime or the apprehension or prosecution of offenders.
Documents to download
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Data protection and the police (81 KB , PDF)
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