which is another 170 million support for children, young people and their families all through christmas with parcels and food packages. downing street says the prime minister will respond to the letter soon. jon donnison, bbc news. labour is demanding a statement from the home secretary, priti patel, after it emerged that 150.000 arrest records were accidentally wiped from police databases. the home office says it's assessing the impact of the glitch, which happened last week, but insists no records of criminals or dangerous persons were deleted — and say they are working �*at pace' to recover the data. charlotte wright reports. the police national computer is a vital tool for bringing perpetrators to justice. used to store and share criminal records information between forces in investigations across the country. but it has been revealed that 150,000 of its biometric entries, including dna and fingerprints,