Crimint

{{Short description|Criminal intelligence database run by the London Metropolitan Police}}

{{about|the database|the law enforcement term|Criminal intelligence}}

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CrimInt is a database run by the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London which stores information on criminals, suspected criminals{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3684930/Corrupt-policeman-blackmailed-sex-offenders.html | title=Corrupt policeman blackmailed sex offenders | work=The Telegraph|location=London| date=9 December 2008}} and protesters.{{cite news |first1=Paul |last1=Lewis |first2=Marc | last2=Vallée |title=Revealed: police databank on thousands of protesters |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/06/police-surveillance-protesters-journalists-climate-kingsnorth |work=The Guardian |location=London |pages=1–2 |date=7 March 2009 |accessdate=10 March 2009 |quote=Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database}} It was created in 1994 and supplied by Memex Technology Limited based on their 'Patriarch' technology. It supports the recording and searching of items of intelligence by both police officers and back office staff. As of 2005 it contained seven million information reports and 250,000 intelligence records.{{cite web | url=http://www.mpa.gov.uk/committees/x-f/2005/050623/14/ | title=Metropolitan Police Authority: CrimInt Plus Project – contract award approval | date=23 June 2005 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://archive.today/20091107050239/http://www.mpa.gov.uk/committees/x-f/2005/050623/14/ | archivedate=7 November 2009 }}

People are able to request their information from the database under data protection laws. Requests have shown that the database holds large amounts of information on protesters who have not committed any crimes which is to be expected as the database is an intelligence database, not a crime recording system.http://www.newstatesman.com/200309150014 Caught on camera Matt Salusbury New Statesman 15 September 2003 Information is stored for at least seven years. Holding information on people who have never committed any offence may be against people's human rights. A police officer, Amerdeep Johal, allegedly used the database to contact sex offenders and threatened to disclose information about them from the database unless they paid him thousands of pounds.{{Cite web |date=2008-12-09 |title=Policeman accused of blackmail |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/policeman-accused-of-blackmail-1058024.html |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=The Independent |language=en}}