150,000 Police Records Lost
Discussion
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55672194
Have they never heard of back ups ?
Home Office said
"The issue related to people arrested and released where no further action had been taken, and no records of criminal or dangerous persons have been deleted. No further records can be deleted."
So not actually "criminals" so should they even have been keeping this data in the first place.
mr_spock said:
If there are no backups then the CIO needs to go.
How can the records be deleted if you still have them all?On a live system where you don't need old data fine, keep a backup should you ever need it again.
But saying you have deleted my finger prints and DNA records but still kept a copy of them all doesn't really fly. Either you have deleted them or you haven't. Just storing them somewhere else doesn't count.
I would love to know the specifics of what went on here. Were all the records sitting on a £2 Ebay USB key, did sometime take the time to nuke the records from the DB directly and the backups? Were the backups only run once a week. Was it some ancient process where an old dear and a compaq laptop would process the records locally before committing them to the main DB, and then it transpires they'd never committed them for 10 years. Who knows!
we've all been there, you write an SQL statement to delete a couple of records, highlight the SQL statement and then press F5. Only to be greeted with a "150000 Records Updated" statement as you realise you missed off half the WHERE clause and start to feel very sick.
In a panic you phone IT who a couple of hours later inform you that the backups have not been working for the last year and nobody realised.
In a panic you phone IT who a couple of hours later inform you that the backups have not been working for the last year and nobody realised.
Joey Deacon said:
we've all been there, you write an SQL statement to delete a couple of records, highlight the SQL statement and then press F5. Only to be greeted with a "150000 Records Updated" statement as you realise you missed off half the WHERE clause and start to feel very sick.
In a panic you phone IT who a couple of hours later inform you that the backups have not been working for the last year and nobody realised.
You then hire an Oracle consultant who tells you to type "rollback;", and charges you £10K. You consider this a bargain.In a panic you phone IT who a couple of hours later inform you that the backups have not been working for the last year and nobody realised.
eharding said:
Joey Deacon said:
we've all been there, you write an SQL statement to delete a couple of records, highlight the SQL statement and then press F5. Only to be greeted with a "150000 Records Updated" statement as you realise you missed off half the WHERE clause and start to feel very sick.
In a panic you phone IT who a couple of hours later inform you that the backups have not been working for the last year and nobody realised.
You then hire an Oracle consultant who tells you to type "rollback;", and charges you £10K. You consider this a bargain.In a panic you phone IT who a couple of hours later inform you that the backups have not been working for the last year and nobody realised.
Countdown said:
williamp said:
Good.
Police dont need to have ir keep records of people who have not done anything wrong
Not even when they're suspected of doing something wrong but there isn't any evidence to prosecute?Police dont need to have ir keep records of people who have not done anything wrong
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