{"id":33518,"date":"2013-10-31T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=787620a7eafeb5d02fb1519b828aeefa"},"modified":"2013-10-31T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:55:37","slug":"news-story-plan-to-publish-historical-police-records-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=33518","title":{"rendered":"News story: Plan to publish historical police records announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Proposals for making historical police records public were announced today by the Home Office following a recommendation by the Hillsborough Independent Panel.<\/p>\n<p>A working group will now be set up to consider how records can be made more accessible and transparent.<\/p>\n<p>One option would be to add English and Welsh police forces to the Public Records Act 1958, bringing them in line with central government departments.<\/p>\n<p>Police forces would then be required to review 30-year-old records and transfer those which meet pre-determined criteria to an archive where members of the public can view them.<\/p>\n<p>They would be able to retain some records, such as crime scene evidence, for longer periods if they could show they were needed for current or future work.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"recommendation\">Recommendation<\/h2>\n<p>This idea was recommended by the Hillsborough Independent Panel in their report into the 1989 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The panel highlighted that police records which would not normally have been accessible were made available to them on an exceptional basis.<\/p>\n<p>Policing Minister Damian Green said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The work of the Hillsborough Independent Panel showed how hugely significant information can be found in historical police records and we should learn from their experience.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense to consider how to bring the police in line with other public bodies, including the government, which already makes records accessible after a certain period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The government is determined to ensure the work of the police is as transparent as possible and this working group will explore how this might affect police records.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The working group will report back to the Home Office with a clear proposal and action plan by the end of June 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working group to be set up by Home Office to consider how police records can be made more accessible and transparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}