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The recruitment and vetting processes Recruitment Soham Village College EPM The police vetting process Cambridgeshire Constabulary Humberside Police The Huntley vetting check – December 2001 2 CONTACTS, RECRUITMENT AND VETTING – THE FINDINGS Events in Humberside Humberside Police Failure to maintain adequate intelligence Failure to identify a pattern Humberside Police’s senior management Conclusions about Humberside Police Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary Humberside Police Authority Social Services Events in Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Constabulary Soham Village College Education Personnel Management Ltd 3 NATIONAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURE – THE FACTS The legislation The Data Protection Act 1984 The Data Protection Act 1998 The Human Rights Act 1998 The policing structure The structure up to October 2002 After October 2002 – the Police Reform Act 2002 Review, inspection and the strategic bodies Information systems The Police National Computer (PNC) National Strategy for Police Information Systems (NSPIS) Local IT systems, applications and criminal intelligence Information management The National Intelligence Model Reviewing, retaining and deleting records Recruitment and the national vetting system Recruitment Overview of the basic vetting regime 54 55 55 57 60 60 67 68 77 77 77 88 94 98 100 101 101 103 103 107 108 109 109 110 111 111 111 112 113 115 115 117 118 119 119 119 122 122 122 ii The Bichard Inquiry – Contents
4 NATIONAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURE – THE FINDINGS The legislation 127 Data protection 127 The relationship between ACPO and the Information Commissioner 128 The policing structure 128 Information systems 129 Little progress with a national intelligence IT system 129 PITO 130 ACPO and the Home Office 130 The Scottish intelligence-gathering model 131 An interim solution – the PLX 132 Finding the best IT procurement 132 The future of the PNC 133 Information management 134 National guidance on record creation, retention and deletion 134 Handling allegations of sexual offences against children 138 Recruitment and vetting 140 Recruitment and selection 140 Vetting 141 The current framework – issues and improvements 142 A new system – licence or registration 150 Taking things forward 155 Glossary 157 Appendix 1: Areas of interest to the Inquiry 163 Appendix 2: Evidence received by the Inquiry 165 Appendix 3: Humberside Police records and Social Services records 171 Appendix 4: Vetting, the List schemes and Enhanced Disclosure 179 Appendix 5: The Inquiry team 187 Index 189 The Bichard Inquiry – Contents iii
Page 1 and 2: The Bichard Inquiry Report A Public
Page 3: © Parliamentary copyright 2004 The
Page 8 and 9: Introduction and summary by Sir Mic
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met on several occasions, were very
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‘Ian Kevin HUNTLEY aka NIXON 31/0
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1.243 It is significant that the ap
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and Selection Procedures: vetting t
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Mr Roger Walker, an employee of EPM
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1.282 In his response to the Inquir
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(to start in July). The cost of bri
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Changing the system - the ‘batch
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‘Comments’ field on the databas
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1.326 There is continuing work to d
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• AS refers to an ‘arrest summo
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eceived) to 24 December 2001 (the d
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What would have been revealed if th
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2 Contacts, recruitment and vettin
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2.10.2 DS Hibbitt and DC Chatha (a
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2.25 In reality, Form 839 would, i
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2.37 The fact that it was not used
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Social Services had no systems - ma
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2.60 A system that automatically d
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• whether or not the alleged abus
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was that the computer gave the bail
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Constabulary, who produced the repo
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the continuation of those failures.
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2.108 He also accepted that the ti
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adopting the National Strategy for
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ecurring. They kept recurring witho
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2.144.4 Why was the letter from Mr
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25 I cannot, therefore, state that
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2.162 The errors and failings I ha
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3 National systems and structure -
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equiring compliance with the releva
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Review, inspection and the strategi
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3.39 While ACPO guidance aims to he
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A record within 24 hours of arrest
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Information management The National
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3.74.3 ACPO Crime Committee’s pol
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3.86 An application for a criminal
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3.97 In December 2003, the Home Off
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4.4 Having € said that, guidance
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the wealth of information held, but
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4.31 € Although CRISP (see paragr
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Recommendations Investment should b
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4.44 € The new Code should seek t
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Recommendations A Code of Practice
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4.54 € If these arrangements were
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Recommendation HMIC should develop,
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Recommendation All posts, including
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Checking applicants’ addresses 4.
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Continuing problems 4.95 € Althou
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4.110 € It is unsurprising that t
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Benefits of a central register 4.12
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Third-party information 4.133 € T
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Glossary 4x4 system - a subjective
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CRISP - Cross Regional Information
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National Policing Plan - a document
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Appendix 1 Areas of interest to the
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Appendix 2 Evidence received by the
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Organisation Name Oral (O) Written
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Organisations that provided written
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3 The job of inputting information
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• the ‘general information’ s
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CIS Crime 28 The second CIS applica
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Social Services records 42 Social S
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the Committee of Inquiry into the S
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sexual, violent or drug offences wo
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29 Under the Enhanced Disclosure re
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Vetting procedures 50 In some count
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Index A full printed index is inclu
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