Police and technology- Never a good mix
19-02-2015, 20:34
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Police and technology- Never a good mix
Apparently pressing a wrong key can wipe out several weeks worth of data...
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Police Scotland has admitted it lost 20,000 stop and search records because "someone pressed the wrong button".
Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mawson told MSPs on the Scottish Parliament's justice sub committee that a total of 20,086 stop and search records had been lost because a "computer programmer pressed the wrong button between May and July last year".
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-31525040
Hmmmmm.
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19-02-2015, 20:36
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Re: Police and technology- Never a good mix
I just laughed when I heard this.You could see it as a plot line in a police series but in RL? Bonkers.
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19-02-2015, 21:22
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Re: Police and technology- Never a good mix
I'm guessing some-one f-ed up, didn't own up/admit to their mistake right away, so recent backups weren't restored, when they found out the tapes which would have held the data had been overwritten as part of the backup cycle 
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19-02-2015, 22:05
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Re: Police and technology- Never a good mix
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Originally Posted by admars
I'm guessing some-one f-ed up, didn't own up/admit to their mistake right away, so recent backups weren't restored, when they found out the tapes which would have held the data had been overwritten as part of the backup cycle |
If I had to guess I'd say the story is utter bull excreta. Luckily I don't have to guess so I won't. 
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19-02-2015, 23:39
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Re: Police and technology- Never a good mix
I don't think there was much of an accident about it...
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20-02-2015, 04:48
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Re: Police and technology- Never a good mix
Have u ever seen a copper try and use a PC? lol
I once was asked to show a friends brother in law who is a Police Sergent how to use a computer and all in all i spent months with him and still he only managed to grasp the basics.
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20-02-2015, 12:34
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Re: Police and technology- Never a good mix
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I don't think there was much of an accident about it...
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Agreed, when I saw it yesterday I thought it most likely they deleted the data to avoid having to report it.
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