THE Ilkley BID board has welcomed the appointment of Felicity Gains as manager. She takes over from Helen Rhodes, who has been leading the BID since its beginning in 2019. Felicity brings a wealth of experience including commercial event management and project management. She said: “I am looking forward to supporting Ilkley businesses and working with all stakeholders to achieve the best results we can to support the local economy. Following what has no doubt been a difficult year for many due to COVID-19 restrictions, I am eager to join the team, helping to re-energize businesses and drive the public back to our streets when it is safe to do so.”
RECORDS from the police database have been lost by the Home Office and a former Cumbrian chief constable has spoken out about his concerns. Home Secretary Priti Patel has been urged to make a statement after the Home Office accidentally lost 150,000 police records during routine ‘housekeeping’. It is feared that the data loss will mean criminals can walk free as evidence on suspects will not be available on the Police National Computer. However, the Government has been quick to reassure the public that data lost is unessential information on closed cases. The National Police Chief’s Council, the Home Office and law enforcement’s partners are working at pace to retrieve the data.
Human error blamed for wiping hundreds of thousands of police records
Hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest history records were accidentally wiped from police databases because of human error and defective code , according to the policing minister. PUBLISHED: 04:26, Sat, Jan 16, 2021 | UPDATED: 08:58, Sat, Jan 16, 2021
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Police and UK Home Office officials were scrambling to recover the data but there are fears it has been permanently erased in what one former chief constable described as a risk to public safety .