Limited access to police national database by front line officers
Home Office received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 26 Nov 2021 and 2 Oct 2025.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 0 specific actions.
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“I have concerns that future deaths could occur due to the lack of access to information held on individual Police force systems by other forces, especially neighbouring forces who may both have contact with individuals.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Home Office responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 3 years 10 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“The concern I have is that there is difficulty for front line officers in police forces across the country to easily access the police national database to check on individuals who are suspected of domestic abuse.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:policeforcesaccessindividuals
Home Office responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2021 → 2025Georgia Barter3 years 10 months after Felicity Clough · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight the risk that police cannot readily access information held by other forces, which may hinder assessments of individuals and contribute to future harm.
Felicity Clough · 26 Nov 2021
“I have concerns that future deaths could occur due to the lack of access to information held on individual Police force systems by other forces, especially neighbouring forces who may both have contact with individuals.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Georgia Barter · 2 Oct 2025
“The concern I have is that there is difficulty for front line officers in police forces across the country to easily access the police national database to check on individuals who are suspected of domestic abuse.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Home Office at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 → 2025 | 0.72 | 0.27 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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