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ICO completes follow-up assessment of Dyfed Powys Police

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The ICO has completed a follow-up assessment of Dyfed Powys Police who signed an undertaking last year to improve their data protection compliance. The undertaking meant that the police force had to engage in force-wide data protection training and refresher training, as well as ensuring that training and monitoring was properly recorded to address non-compliance and ensure that security measures are in place to properly protect data.

The involvement of the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) – the UK’s data watchdog – was to ensure that Dyfed Powys Police were upholding their data protection responsibilities after a number of incidents had previously occurred.

In the ICO’s follow-up report, they identified a number of positive changes that had been made, but they have also identified a number of areas that the police force needs to improve upon, which included a better focus on this month’s GDPR changes; ensuring outsourced third-parties are complying with data protection responsibilities; and ensuring staff are complying (and are up-to-date) with relevant data protection legislation.

Strong recommendations were also made with regards to compliance reviews being regularly undertaken, as well as ensuring that the management of information security is audited at relevant intervals.

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Police data breaches can be serious. We have seen a number of recent incidents, including the police force that lost key evidence in a sexual assault case, and Gwent Police fined for reportedly “hiding” a data breach as well.

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