Driving Licence on PNC

Please confirm whether, and how many, records of persons with the names listed below are held on the Police National Computer by your force. Please also confirm, in as much as it is possible for you to ascertain, how many instances of each name have been removed from the database.

Please ensure that the searches you perform on your records include all reasonable permutations of first names / last names and also ensure you search for each name with and without the foreign accents evident below:

• Prawo Jazdy
• Permis de Conduire
• Bundesrepublik Deutschland
• Permisul de Conducere
• Øidièský Prùkaz
• Republik Osterreich
• Permiso de Conduccion
• Kørekort Danmark
• Vairuotojo Pazymejimas
• Patente di Guida
• Carta de Condução
• Körkort Sverige

Please note that although this request might appear to be subject to a personal information exemption (Section 40), this is not actually so. Each of the 'names' above actually either means 'driving licence' or is the name of a country in the relevant language. Therefore, any entries on the Police National Computer which have any of the above recorded as a person's name are erroneous. Therefore, it would not breach Section 40 to provide the information. Along the same lines, it would clearly not breach Section 31 (Law Enforcement) for the same reasons.

In each case of one of the names above appearing on the Police National Computer, please provide as much information as you hold on that 'person', including (but not limited to) age, sex, nationality, any offences alleged (and dates, times and locations), any arrests (and dates, times and locations), any charges, and any notes appended to the person's entry on the Database.

If you hold such information I wish to have whatever you are able to provide me with, whether that be:

• a copy of the information
  And/or
• an opportunity to inspect the record

In accordance with the Act our response is provided below;

Cheshire Constabulary neither confirm nor denies that it holds any of the information requested. To give a statement of the reasons why neither confirming nor denying is appropriate in this case would itself involve disclosure of exempt information, therefore under section 17 (4), no explanation can be given. To the extent that Section 40 (5) Personal Information applies, the Cheshire Constabulary has determined that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exclusion of the duty to neither confirm nor deny outweighs the public interest in confirming whether or not the information is held.