Home truths about internal security
Posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 by Home Office WatchCategory: ID Cards
Research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed a 300% increase in the number of lost staff security passes at the Home Office and Ministry of Justice over six years.
The Government departments responsible for the internal security of the nation are so hopeless at their own internal security that they’ve been losing passes at the rate of more than one per day. total of 3,492 staff security passes have been lost or stolen since 2001. (The departments split in 2007.)
Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary Chris Huhne said:
Everyone understands that things can go missing, but these figures suggest a culture of carelessness among the people responsible for our safety and security.
On average, one of their employees loses their security pass every day.
This Government wants powers to build a database of every phone call and email, but the evidence of lost security passes suggests they could not be trusted to run a nightclub door.
They must scrap ID cards before they are allowed to treat our most sensitive data in the same slapdash manner.”
The Press Association has this report.
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