UK CPS Loses DVDs, Or Did They?

Nothing new here, move along.

Standard procedure in "losing" Child Protective Service records is typically shredding, but these were DVDs, which I am sure had future potential use in crafting agency policies, for the benefit of the one who is now the possessor.

Too bad we do not know the scope of the data, which would be a good point of departure when trying to find the cui bono but I am going on the procedure.

This was evidence of child welfare organizations taking in lots of money and not doing a damn thing about these kids.

Losing stuff is a great way of getting rid of evidence, you know.

Such a shame anything in child welfare operations are super secret.

Same ethos, different county.

DVDs of child sex abuse victims' interviews lost by CPS

Alison Saunders

Information Commissioner’s Office fines CPS £325,000 after DVDs showing victims revealing sensitive details of their abuse disappeared after being delivered to reception

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lost DVDs containing interviews with child sex abuse victims after putting them in the post, it has emerged.

It has been fined £325,000 for the breach, which was the second time it had been punished for the loss of sensitive video recordings.

The Information Commissioner’s Office said the disks contained interviews with 15 victims who were abused as children, which were to be used at a trial.

“The DVDs contained the most intimate sensitive details of the victims, as well as the sensitive personal data of the perpetrator, and some identifying information about other parties,” a spokesperson said.

“The DVDs were sent by tracked delivery between two CPS offices, with the recipient office being in a shared building. The delivery was made outside office hours, and the DVDs – which were not in tamper-proof packaging – were left in the reception.

“Although the building’s entry doors were locked, anyone with access to the building could access this reception area.

“It is not known what has happened to the DVDs.”

The penalty came following a series of controversies over the CPS’s handling of collapsed rape cases and false child sexual abuse allegations, amid budget and staff cuts.

The current director of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, has announced she will be stepping down in October at the end of her set five-year term.

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