Law+Enforcement

As technology developed crimes became more and more sophisticated. To deal with this the police forces are equipped with modern technology. Communication is essential for police officers. Radios are being encrypted by the database to make it safe and there are various location sensors as well as an emergency button for help. A way to check the details of a vehicle or its owner is ‘automatic number plate recognition’. The police can look up the information in the database (PNC). As a vehicle pass by a camera, vehicle recognition plates are recognized. Using this, more than 100 000 vehicles can be checked each day.
 * Police and ICT**



The PNC holds vast amounts of criminal intelligence information and allows the different police stations from different areas share information. It is located in Hendon, UK at a police station. The mainframe computer is connected to about 10 000 terminals and deals with over 65 million transactions a year. This PNC holds different kinds of data. A few are, vehicle database, criminals’ database, fingerprint database, DNA database and stolen property database.
 * Police National Computer**

Computers and the law media type="youtube" key="fjY5TFdADa4?version=3" height="390" width="640" **//__C__//** With the expansion of computers the information could be stored in huge quantities. To protect the right to privacy, many countries have introduced laws. Under the British law, if anybody wishes to hold personal information about people they must register in a specialized database. Personal data principles have been introduced in Europe: These ensure that it is obtained for the good purposes, that it is accurate and that the user handles it rightfully without losing or damaging it. The people whose data is held can ask for special rights for example to be given a copy of the data or to receive compensation for any damage and distress caused to the data. All the data which is related to the state is exempted of those rules. With the computers came new sorts of crimes: Hacking and viruses. The laws of that time were not adapted to that sort of crime and the state had to adapt. Copyright laws were created.
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