spotlights the heart felt by those affected and for that i am truly grateful. the ban was introduced in 1967, unbelievably after the sexual offences act had decriminalised same sex acts and private. when the ban ended at the beginning of the millennium the stories of those who suffered were forgotten and records buried. in 2010 11 in line with government policy agreed by the association of chief police officers, the mod enacted a policy officers, the mod enacted a policy to destroy legacy police investigation records concerning decriminalised sexual offences so that historical decriminalised convictions could not show up on criminal record checks of service personnel. i want to assure veterans that was not a cover up and it doesn t mean the wider service records have been destroyed. i want to place on record my thanks and gratitude to the team for compiling this, hence of report. it was