22 May 2008

CPS made serious errors over data on Dutch criminal suspects

High profile story last year. Nobody's fault, of course. Does sound like it has all the classic ingredients of a cock-up. Public sector really does need to deal with illness and the question of who picks up the ill person's work while they are ill in a much more systematic way. So many stories of people returning to their desks to find that it's all been left for them to deal with on their return.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Lewis's report found that the disc was "unexpectedly" sent to the CPS, not the police.."
This is actually not so unexpectedly as the dissemination across borders of this kind of data in the Netherlands needs to be authorised by a prosecutor. Of course sending it by unregistered business is not so smart.