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Message: [QUOTE="RangdoOfArg, post: 10529084, member: 158909"] The flip side to its elderly status was, with proper trained users, it was bombproof. Fields for making a nominal record often needed codes, for instance. So idiots could not type in nonsense. The downside was changes had to be pushed through slowly, and due to other pressures, may not occur at all. Duplicate records are a nightmare. That said, it is still probably the most comprehensive policing database in the world. If you consider it combines arrest and conviction data with live data on persons, including whether they are missing/wanted or intelligence is required and data on vehicles and stolen plant/equipment, it is one heck of a tool. As said above, one of the issues is that any data on PNC is owned by the data controller. This is normally the Chief Constable of the force entering the data. There are also other users of PNC, also having a ‘data controller’ role. Unsurprisingly, they all have different ideas of what to enter and what to keep. Bit like herding cats. [/QUOTE]