Member

The Police Federation has discussed this issue and is grateful to the Home Office for the meeting that happened on 25 April. There appear to be two main objections, which I shall touch on. The first was that, even if the redaction of case files before submission to the CPS for a charging decision were not required by the data protection legislation, it is required by Article 8 of the ECHR. The second objection was that it was appropriate for the police to carry out the redaction exercise on case files before submission to the CPS because that would mean the case files would not contain irrelevant personal data, which could give rise to potential pitfalls further down the line.