Police handed victim's phone to defence

Kent Constabulary has been fined £80,000 astern it handed information on a sound belonging to an supposed domesticated misuse dupe to her spouse's canvasser. The Entropy Commissioner's Billet (ICO) aforesaid it was a grave break of the Information Tribute Act. The womanhood gave her ring to Kent Constabulary because she aforementioned tv footage backed her claims against her collaborator, but the telephone too contained raw information.

Kent Constabulary aforesaid procedures had been changed to forfend errors in the futurity. ICO mind of enforcement Stephen Eckersley aforementioned: "Kent Patrol was investigation a severe affair yet the demand to payoff right tending of the personal details they were entrusted with does not look to get been interpreted gravely."



He aforementioned the force-out handed the canvasser "the integral contents of the plaintiff's cell". 'Solid suffering' It contained many otc files, with spiritualist personal information including schoolbook messages and folk photographs. The charwoman's pardner was a policeman who was topic to a pro standards probe by Kent Patrol into mismanage. According to Kent Constabulary, the nameless policeman was lining a condemnable investigating complete so-called domesticated revilement and was so besides investigated for mishandle next a rupture of his bond weather afterward his apprehension. The ICO aforementioned the information on the headphone was sent by misapprehension ahead of the mismanage listening, and the canvasser disclosed the data to his node.

An probe by the ICO constitute Kent Constabulary had unfitting security and it had attached a grave break of the law, potential to get caused "strong hurt". In a command, Kent Patrol aforementioned it recognised the ICO's decisiveness. The effect aforesaid: "When the information infract became patent Kent Constabulary referred itself to the Info Commissioner and amply cooperated with the probe. "As shortly as the infract was identified a new sop was enforced to check that a interchangeable wrongdoing cannot be made in the futurity."