{"id":46980,"date":"2014-09-01T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e40cb6f8ab1b477bd0c0e28fa9e1c381"},"modified":"2014-09-01T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:12:09","slug":"news-story-criminal-records-link-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46980","title":{"rendered":"News story: Criminal records link completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Home Office today announced work to connect Northern Ireland\u2019s criminal records to the rest of the UK has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>It means all criminal records and associated fingerprints can be searched via a national system by Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI) and all other UK forces for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration and Security Minister James Brokenshire said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Linking Northern Ireland\u2019s criminal records to the rest of the UK will assist the police in their fight against crime and improve public protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It will also enhance our counter-terrorism capability and further strengthen the UK\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The link project meets recommendations made on the management of criminality information by Lord Bichard, Sir Ian Magee and Sunita Mason CBE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ireland connected to the rest of the UK<\/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\/46980"}],"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=46980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}