150,000 Police Records Accidentally Deleted

[ECCOnoob]

10 minutes ago, Mister M said:

I've no doubt that she would have had the good grace to attend Parliament to answer questions on the matter, given the gravity of the situation.

But there again, having missed at least 5 COBRA meetings at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, Boris Johnson can hardly admonish his Home Secretary for not demonstrating some impression that she's discharging her duties.

It could be argued that they are not in a position to "answer questions" until they actually know what has happened themselves.

 

It's not as if Parliament is not aware of the incident. There have already been several statements about the nature and extent of the the data believed to have been incorrectly deleted and all these rumours and opinions about how "severe" and "grave" this position is are completely uncorroborated until such time as someone who actually was there doing the deletion work verifies otherwise.   

 

Whilst I'm not oblivious to the fact that she is Home Secretary and "the face" of the sector -  let's not completely forget that the ones actually in charge and actually responsible for this screw up will include layers and layers of highly paid civil servants, chief executives, heads of department, managers and under managers and teams of administrators. They have a role to play and they need to be giving answers just as much as the Minister.

 

The way some of these twitterati and so-called journalists have been talking today it's as if Patel herself popped in and whimsically did a bit of decluttering on the PNC.

[blackydog]

12 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

Probably about the same as being thrown at Priti Patel.

 

There's hardly been a lack of social media interest about it. We are talking about the subject on this very thread. A quick look at Facebook and Twitter shows plenty of people playing armchair detective, second guessing what has happened, throwing in their ill-informed opinions about how it has happened and what they would do to fix it... plenty of wind bags on TV spouting their unwarranted opinions....plenty of so-called journalists making grandeous statements and demanding the ministers head on a plate....

 

Let's not turn this into some preferential treatment nonsense debate.

 

I'm sure plenty would have seen Shouty and Pouty on ITV this morning doing their usual performance of berating, harrassing, talking over and general ranting during what they laughing deem a political interview. If you haven't, don't worry, the ego filled anchors and the viewer hungry network will be milking it, promoting it and retweeting it for all it's worth.

 

The sad fact is, in all of this hysteria whenever anything like this happens, the people who actually do know what the problem is, do you know who was responsible and do know how to rectify it are never asked. We never actually become proplerly informed of these situations it just descends into one big pot of rumours, second guessing, one upmanship,  tit-for-tat finger pointing and unreasonable demands until eventually some scapegoat gets thrown on the block.

?????? Some of us are discussing how the deleted data could have been recovered. Ok I replied to the Diane Abbot post but that was tongue in cheek, wish I hadn't now .  

[Baron99]

1 hour ago, ECCOnoob said:

Probably about the same as being thrown at Priti Patel.

 

There's hardly been a lack of social media interest about it. We are talking about the subject on this very thread. A quick look at Facebook and Twitter shows plenty of people playing armchair detective, second guessing what has happened, throwing in their ill-informed opinions about how it has happened and what they would do to fix it... plenty of wind bags on TV spouting their unwarranted opinions....plenty of so-called journalists making grandeous statements and demanding the ministers head on a plate....

 

Let's not turn this into some preferential treatment nonsense debate.

 

I'm sure plenty would have seen Shouty and Pouty on ITV this morning doing their usual performance of berating, harrassing, talking over and general ranting during what they laughing deem a political interview. If you haven't, don't worry, the ego filled anchors and the viewer hungry network will be milking it, promoting it and retweeting it for all it's worth.

 

The sad fact is, in all of this hysteria whenever anything like this happens, the people who actually do know what the problem is, do you know who was responsible and do know how to rectify it are never asked. We never actually become proplerly informed of these situations it just descends into one big pot of rumours, second guessing, one upmanship,  tit-for-tat finger pointing and unreasonable demands until eventually some scapegoat gets thrown on the block.

My bold. 

 

Very funny, very apt.  😂 

[tinfoilhat]

1 hour ago, ECCOnoob said:

It could be argued that they are not in a position to "answer questions" until they actually know what has happened themselves.

 

It's not as if Parliament is not aware of the incident. There have already been several statements about the nature and extent of the the data believed to have been incorrectly deleted and all these rumours and opinions about how "severe" and "grave" this position is are completely uncorroborated until such time as someone who actually was there doing the deletion work verifies otherwise.   

 

Whilst I'm not oblivious to the fact that she is Home Secretary and "the face" of the sector -  let's not completely forget that the ones actually in charge and actually responsible for this screw up will include layers and layers of highly paid civil servants, chief executives, heads of department, managers and under managers and teams of administrators. They have a role to play and they need to be giving answers just as much as the Minister.

 

The way some of these twitterati and so-called journalists have been talking today it's as if Patel herself popped in and whimsically did a bit of decluttering on the PNC.

Seemed to be more on Twitter about pouty's neckline today. Which I'm fine with.

 

But no, let's just leave the government to it, they'll get around to doing something at some point and don't need any oversight or questioning. 

Edited January 20, 2021 by tinfoilhat

[Anna B]

1 hour ago, ECCOnoob said:

Probably about the same as being thrown at Priti Patel.

 

There's hardly been a lack of social media interest about it. We are talking about the subject on this very thread. A quick look at Facebook and Twitter shows plenty of people playing armchair detective, second guessing what has happened, throwing in their ill-informed opinions about how it has happened and what they would do to fix it... plenty of wind bags on TV spouting their unwarranted opinions....plenty of so-called journalists making grandeous statements and demanding the ministers head on a plate....

 

Let's not turn this into some preferential treatment nonsense debate.

 

I'm sure plenty would have seen Shouty and Pouty on ITV this morning doing their usual performance of berating, harrassing, talking over and general ranting during what they laughing deem a political interview. If you haven't, don't worry, the ego filled anchors and the viewer hungry network will be milking it, promoting it and retweeting it for all it's worth.

 

The sad fact is, in all of this hysteria whenever anything like this happens, the people who actually do know what the problem is, do you know who was responsible and do know how to rectify it are never asked. We never actually become proplerly informed of these situations it just descends into one big pot of rumours, second guessing, one upmanship,  tit-for-tat finger pointing and unreasonable demands until eventually some scapegoat gets thrown on the block.

Really ECCOnoob, you surprise me. You'll be calling it a conspiracy theory next...

[blackydog]

13 hours ago, enntee said:

I'm sure that I read somewhere that is wasn't a single action of deletion. More a case that the script written to search and delete by the "clean up" project team had been faulty and doing stuff since November.

Be interesting if you could find a link.

[max]

2 hours ago, blackydog said:

Be interesting if you could find a link.

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And it reveals that a "weeding system", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.

The process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.

From the BBC