Police National Database
(asked on 1st March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many authorised people are licensed to access the Police National Database, broken down by organisation.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Use of the Police National Database is limited to trained officers and staff who have specific roles, for example in Force Intelligence Bureaux. All law enforcement authorities which use PND are required to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and have regard to the Code of Practice for the Operation and Use of the Police National Database’ issued pursuant to the Secretary of State’s powers under section 39A of the Police Act 1996.
The statistics set out in the attached Annex below have been taken from a live operational database and they have not been audited to the level associated with ONS data. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.
Annex
Management information on the number of people authorised to use PND in January 2017.
Organisation | Total |
Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 183 |
Bedfordshire Police | 100 |
British Transport Police | 111 |
Cheshire Constabulary | 116 |
City of London Police | 43 |
Cleveland Police | 123 |
Cumbria Constabulary | 87 |
Disclosure and Barring Service | 6 |
Derbyshire Constabulary | 153 |
Devon and Cornwall Police | 243 |
Dorset Police | 120 |
Durham Constabulary | 129 |
Dyfed Powys Police | 75 |
Essex Police | 243 |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | 151 |
Greater Manchester Police | 417 |
Gwent Police | 105 |
Hampshire Constabulary | 260 |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | 136 |
Home Office (PND Team) | 7 |
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs | 18 |
Humberside Police | 133 |
Home Office (Immigration Enforcement) | 16 |
States of Jersey Police | 9 |
Kent Police | 245 |
Lancashire Constabulary | 132 |
Leicestershire Police | 191 |
Lincolnshire Police | 108 |
Merseyside Police | 279 |
Metropolitan Police Service | 1,100 |
Ministry of Defence Police | 24 |
National Crime Agency | 417 |
Norfolk Constabulary | 112 |
North Wales Police | 105 |
North Yorkshire Police | 126 |
Northamptonshire Police | 101 |
Northumbria Police | 189 |
Nottinghamshire Police | 130 |
Police Scotland | 366 |
Police Service of Northern Ireland | 134 |
South Wales Police | 151 |
South Yorkshire Police | 146 |
Service Police Crime Bureau | 15 |
Staffordshire Police | 203 |
Suffolk Constabulary | 105 |
Surrey Police | 163 |
Sussex Police | 78 |
Thames Valley Police | 350 |
Warwickshire Police | 65 |
West Mercia Police | 139 |
West Midlands Police | 687 |
West Yorkshire Police | 363 |
Wiltshire Police | 115 |
Total | 9,407 |