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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 January 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

The same story plays out at force level. In one example, a force was unable to upload child abuse imagery to the national child abuse image database because device analysis had been outsourced to a provider that could not access the system, directly hampering victim identification and offender detection. Across the country, officers still find themselves copying and pasting details between systems that cannot talk to each other, or using clunky, decades-old interfaces for basic checks.

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