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Northern Ireland: PSNI agrees to publish policy on biometric data retention in court case settlement

Topic
Biometrics Civil liberties Law Policing
Country/Region
Northern Ireland UK

14 January 2019

"The PSNI will publish a formal public policy on its retention of biometric data after settling a case brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC)."

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See: PSNI agrees to publish policy on biometric data retention in court case settlement (Irish Legal News, link)

"The NIHRC issued judicial review proceedings against the PSNI in December 2017 on behalf of an individual who wanted them to erase fingerprints and DNA retained after the individual was arrested in 2009.

The individual was arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but the police subsequently accepted that they had simply intervened in a neighbourhood dispute to keep the peace, and no charges or prosecution were brought.

The PSNI refused to destroy the individual’s data on the basis of their previous 1992 conviction for common assault."

And see: Police to provide greater clarity on DNA retention in Northern Ireland (Belfast Telegraph, link)

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