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Alleged RTC, can the police give your details to a 3rd party?

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  • Deanston
    Deanston Posts: 84 Forumite
    casseus wrote: »
    Front civilian staff categorically DONT have access to PNC, Any such report of an incident that requires access to it the staff must call down an officer, who will not give out personal details because someone walked in with index number.
    Phone the force control room!!:rotfl::rotfl: the civilian isn't entitled to the information. what now?

    Maybe where you work civilians don't have access to the PNC, but civilian staff do have access. What now?
  • casseus
    casseus Posts: 230 Forumite
    Deanston wrote: »
    Maybe where you work civilians don't have access to the PNC, but civilian staff do have access. What now?

    Volunteers civi's don't have PIAP/NPCC approval to use the system. Those that do face severe Penalties for misuse of the PNC and unlawful access of data are severe; it will likely lead to dismissal and sometimes a court appearance for breaching the Data Protection Act 1998/2018. So Civi's don't have access, those that do face being sacked, and taken to court.

    that's what. Your theory is nothing more than that of a conspiracy theory, a fantasy.
  • Deanston
    Deanston Posts: 84 Forumite
    casseus wrote: »
    Volunteers civi's don't have PIAP/NPCC approval to use the system. Those that do face severe Penalties for misuse of the PNC and unlawful access of data are severe; it will likely lead to dismissal and sometimes a court appearance for breaching the Data Protection Act 1998/2018. So Civi's don't have access, those that do face being sacked, and taken to court.

    that's what. Your theory is nothing more than that of a conspiracy theory, a fantasy.

    They are on the pay role so aren't volunteers.
  • Deanston wrote: »
    They are on the pay role so aren't volunteers.
    In my area we don't have counter staff on the payroll, we have day volunteers. AKA PSV's
  • debtdebt
    debtdebt Posts: 949 Forumite
    OP, did your sister hit the car or not?
  • uknick
    uknick Posts: 1,809 Forumite
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    Can I just clarify something here;

    Are some people saying a man can get the registration number of a female car driver, then just walk into a police station, claim she's hit his car and the police will give him the name and address of a female car owner (registered keeper)?

    If so, I think that's one for the media to highlight.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    The man in question is saying that happened. Within an hour of the incident.

    Some people are taking that at face value.
    Others are more sceptical.
  • misterbarlow
    misterbarlow Posts: 488 Forumite
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    edited 2 December 2018 at 11:49AM
    debtdebt wrote: »
    OP, did your sister hit the car or not?

    She was unaware of it.. The 3rd party parked awkwardly oppositte her not in a marked bay, she struggled to get out and assumed she had and went home..
    It was only when this guy turned up going mental a short time later she knew anything about it...

    All I know is what she told me, she says he told her he viewed cctv in the shop, took her reg from that, went to police station, and someone there gave him her address!!!

    She lives about 3miles away from the shop, on a new build estate which is a right maze, right up the back at the end of a cul de sac.. there is no way he would randomly drive around and find her car...
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    She was unaware of it.. The 3rd party parked awkwardly oppositte her not in a marked bay, she struggled to get out and assumed she had and went home.
    So she knew there was a poorly parked car, and there was a risk she'd nudged it, but didn't actually bother checking?
    All I know is what she told me, she says he told her he viewed cctv in the shop, took her reg from that, went to police station, and someone there gave him her address!!!
    And she automatically believes him.

    I repeat my earlier question - is it feasible that he could have seen her car parked up at home...? Or followed her?
  • misterbarlow
    misterbarlow Posts: 488 Forumite
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    edited 2 December 2018 at 12:34PM
    well obviously its feasible!!

    That's the whole reason behind this post.
    I didn't see that the police would give out that information to any random person who walks in..
    He could be her ex with a restraining order or something for all they knew??
    I would have thought they would have told him to just contact his insurance, or visited her themselves and told her to...???

    Last year my mate picked up someone hitting his parked car on his dashcam and split his bumper.. he took video to police and they did just that, told him just contact your insurance and send to them!!
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