[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by egg&chips

I don't think it's even necessarily about corruption either. Heaven knows the cock-ups that have happened with huge software launches by various govt depts in the past have been such debacles that a whole population database would have to be very carefully set up. I suspect that our friends from Salt Lake City may have the experience to do it but very high risk.

You are right. Often police forces do not share information about the people who commit crimes...or who have been investigated....if they did then the chap who murdered the two little girls in Soham would have been caught much sooner.