nightjar
> "Robbie" wrote in message
> news:651ig5F2dkc21U2@mid.individual.net...
>> R. Mark Clayton wrote:
>>> "Fray McBentos" wrote in message
>>> news:6DLGj.114706$nw4.16231@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>>> On weds evening I caught part of a "traffic police" tv program. Cameras
>>>> following police to see what they do etc.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, There was a part where an ANPR camera caught an uninsured
>>>> driver, so
>>>> they pulled him over.
>>>>
>>>> The driver produced an insurance certificate there and then. The
>>>> officers
>>>> were not satisfied, so they rang the insurance company. I think the
>>>> officer
>>>> said it was "E-Sure". After a quick phone call the officer said to the
>>>> driver that he had missed some monthly payments and that he hd been told
>>>> to
>>>> pay by a certain date and hadn't done so, so the insurance lapsed.
>>>> The officer gave details of dates of missed payments and dates when the
>>>> driver had contacted the company, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Surely Data protection laws would prevent this ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> No information provided to the police for the prevention or detection of
>>> crime is exempt.
>>>
>>> One wonders what happens if the bloke produces receipts...
>> I saw this part of the programme. I assume that there must have been some
>> way the police could verify who they were? It (obviously) never showed
>> footage of the actual conversation the policeman had with the customer
>> service rep, but I assume the info wasn't just given on the spot because
>> he claimed to be a policeman?
>
> When I worked for an Electricity Board, in the days when computers only
> lived in large, air-conditioned rooms, anyone authorised to receive
> confidential data would phone us, then ring off and wait for us to ring back
> on the number we had for them in our telephone book. I suspect that caller
> ID would replace the need for that today.
>
> Colin Bignell
>
>
The policeman was calling from a mobile, if I remember correctly. Caller
ID wouldn't be useful if it was just a random mobile number that was
showing.
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Robbie |