Constabulary to monitor employees.

• Position: PRIVACY - Brief article

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In Britain, the Lancashire Constabulary is deploying software to monitor its employees to prevent information being leaked from its intelligence database.

The move was spurred by new regulations from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) that call for all United Kingdom police forces to be audited to ensure the proper protocols are in place to safeguard the integrity of confidential and private information stored in police databases. According to an article by Computing, "Statistics recently released by police show that over 400 police officers and civilian staff were disciplined for misusing computers at work in the last five years."

According to Detective Superintendent Martyn Leveridge, the operations manager for the Lancashire Constabulary's professional standards department, "The sole purpose is to counter corruption on...