The UK’s data protection regulator has reprimanded the country’s largest police service for failing to properly maintain records on organized crime groups (OGCs), resulting in inaccurate information being stored on a key database. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that London’s Metropolitan Police (MPS) infringed the Data Protection Act 2018, which states that “all reasonable steps must be taken to ensure that personal data which is inaccurate, incomplete or no longer up to date is not transmitted or made available for any of the law enforcement purposes.” In fact, between April and July 2020 a coding issue on the Police National Database (PND) resulted in the introduction of test data to the live system, which in turn caused some legitimate files to be rejected.

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