the Anti-Blood Sports League.
THE STORY started on 23 mary this year, PCs William Robertson and George Hurst on the Mó when they saw a Ford Unattended. They chocked with the Police National amputer Unit at Hendon.
formation simply istration mumber of a vehicle:
the vehicle is stolen, which tu it was stolen from, what ne it was stolen, the crime bool reference number, *if the vehicle was not stolen: the of the owner, romer's address, the lengih of one he or she has owned the ebide.
DESECRATING But our twe constables found out a little bit more Last month the car-owner and rwo others appeared in court desecrating the rave of the 18th century bunts san, John Peel. John Kay, prosecuting, said The car checked on the Police Computer. He (the police offic er) was also told that the owner was a prominent member of the Anti-Blood Sports Lengue.' • magazine SEX EDUCATION 1A V GOD.
WHERE DD MORE ALARMING information has leaked out on what sort of data is held on the files of the British police and the Army in the north of Ireland. This data contains not only "facts", but hearsay, membership of subversive organisations like the Anti-Blood Sports League and even data about the known associates of suspects. Now police have categorically refused to say how a routine inquiry to the Police National Computer provided them with the Information that a car owner was a prominent member of computing industry, took up the inquiry. They first quizeed Scotland Yard, but were told that the Police Computer was the responsibility of the Home Office. So they asked the Home Office.
CONSTRAINT "This is a very compticated thing' Datalink was told. The Police are responsible, certain constraints laid down by he Home Office, for informal jon on the file. What are the constraints? "Ir mustn't exceod a certain amount of space' was the only concrete reply which the magazine received.
There are a number of possiblitles which could have led to the "Joha Peel" case. The vehicle been wasn't). The vehicle might have been registered in the name of the Anti-Blood Sports League, (iE W550 The other possibulicy is that the vehicle registration file at the PNC has an area in it in which can De stored any information the police see fir concerning the owner of that vehicle.
There are 12 million or so car owners in Britain.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS SO FAR? Datalink.
within Datalink conctudes:
As mch information is either numeric in naruG DCR aY HUCILied via the use of codes tbere DH IE TOUC TECHNIL odds and ends -system ohviously isn't big enough to hold everybody. What does seem to he MON act. This TINTO THOSE DINSINS pens, more af home in the Thind than a dangerous TESCS TAR SOOE uNOue IONE HAR MAURAO DUM S ELAO! member of the ractiooary Inst/tute of Joumalists, rather vague of the vehicle guidelines which altbough tbe everything there - what isa'i?
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and North London has been The Police activitica. sation are the actual govern the be information that's held there on the police antional computer."
"Are there any, other than Imitations of storage space?' Because if membership of the Anli-Biond Sports League is held The posters had decoraled the again paper, until North London NUU Branch ARAMAR WA CESI OMGIEIE TO SCY Haran NAUTLOOLUES JOUUO BU demanded that the lod member de given a formal every turn. CANADIAN Solicitor General Francis Fox and top officials of CHOM EROSEISI ITOU LO have repeatedly denied that the RCMP breaks che law in The CouRe s TEE Bu since the disclosure of an illega break-in at the Agence de Presse TeOD uEDL judee's astonishing discharge of the police officers involved Cviocic Bus ocgan to pc ug showing that the APLQ actior was anything hut exceptiomal This has tow been contirmed RCMIP: On the CBC televition individual officers programme "The Fitth Estate or 30 September, memhers of th force sere qualed as sayine COB! illegal wirecaps and break ins are Trined their partispa tin in det. , practice". desLocksmiths, on the RCMP's payroll as 'informers how they regularis assist RCMP agents on some of the more complex assienments.
OVERZEALOUS One of the officers interviewed by "The Fifth Estate" recounted how he and another cop onp were latening la the racio whi sitting in on a wiretapped conver when thiey heard chen RCMP Commissioner Maurice Nadon on the radio denying such practices exisied. "There we were sitting there with all the equip ment in fromt of us."
The two officers who agreed to Interviewei indicated that hew had doodec to spenx ou bocnuse they feared the KOMP brass would disown them if their activities were revealed. thereby Kep. They ciled nevent statsments them alone to face the by retired RCMP Deputy Comimissioner William Kelly, an unofficial spokesperson by Calcured immiguten reprimand, with a warning that if ne ewe aso sco nnSr rOs m?
would be ORAS HOER dismissed for grave miscoriduer intolerab/e told them:
NOW WIR HOOK WOr O SurCO DI gnouic de resisteo Newspapers bear a AMiE sEH hale 2 switcheahay 1%1 ТАРЕ МИ.
in tie shérestSCE TIN , DiSNES forve, that illegal activities mere The work ol 'overzealous" junior officers.
Recent news reports confirmed that the RCMP carries on extensive sureillance of trade unions.
Tarmers' organisations, the New Democratic Parly. other Ieli-wing policical partioa. lt ls certain that such Dreanisatanis are targets of these illegal merhoie know that it is eften dane senior producer Ron Hageart told the press, 'hut this type of surrenticious entry is widely used in all hse inestretshow that the conduct of Canada's politicai police is essentially similar to that of its US counterparts, the FBI . Iney indicate that illegal police activity may be as 110500080 10 080809810 SOuLI ne CarOer particular respons/b/lity La SUSTr especially in a newspsper office STUT OCGOTSEIC IonerenTel the NUJ's demends.
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