Privacy Statement - Detection and prevention of crime

1. What is personal information?

2. What we do with your personal information

3. Why do we collect information about you?

4. How we collect information

5. How we use your information

6. Information sharing

7. Detection and prevention of crime

8. Required by law

9. Other public bodies

10. Contractors

11. Statistics and reports

12. Public statements

13. Specific statements

14. CCTV/Webcams

15. How we protect your information

16. Your rights

17. Contact details & advice

18. Changes to this privacy notice

7. Detection and prevention of crime

We have a legal obligation to safeguard public funds and we reserve the right to check the information you have provided for accuracy, in order to detect fraud. This may involve data matching exercises where we compare different sets of data which we hold for unusual matches or discrepancies; this may also include matching council data with external data sources such as information held by credit reference agencies.

There is also an expectation that we will assist in the prevention and detection of crime and we will therefore generally supply specific information which we are asked to provide to the police or other crime detection agencies. However, we will only do so where we are satisfied that it is necessary to do so to avoid harm being caused to any specified investigation and that the disclosure would be lawful and proportionate.