The names of police officers and staff have been published online, but how did it happen?
On 3 August, the Police Service of Northern Ireland received a FoI request from a member of the public which asked: "Could you provide the number of officers at each rank and number of staff at each grade?"This was referred to by the police as "the source data" and should not have been released as part of the FoI.
This included the surname and first initial of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence. According to the PSNI's website, it currently employs 6,812 full and part-time officers and 2,437 support staffAttacks on police continue 25 years after the end of the worst of the Troubles
However, employers must follow a strict set of "data protection principles" to ensure that data is handled in an appropriate way.Lawyer and data protection expert Ibra-Him Hasan said there were "serious questions to be asked" of the PSNI in terms of its procedures for dealing with FoI requests.
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