Home Office blames 'housekeeping process' for deleting 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records police database
The vital records were wiped from the national police database during a weekly data purge.
Some 213,000 offence records, details of 175,000 arrests and 15,000 ‘person records’ have disappeared, he said. Mr Malthouse has issued a further statement on the fiasco today - after initially pinning it on "human error".
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