Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what access the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has to the Police National Computer; and which other charities or voluntary bodies have similar access.
The RSPCA has access to the Police National Computer (PNC) via the ACRO Criminal Records Office. ACRO provide a bureau service on behalf of a number of non-police prosecuting agencies.
The only charity that has direct access to the PNC is the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.