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Recommendation - West Yorkshire Police, February 2020

West Yorkshire Police Ref: 2019/121933 Recommended 14 Feb 2020 Response due 10 Apr 2020

West Yorkshire Police (WYP) officers executed a search warrant at the home of a member of the public suspected of downloading illegal images of children. They seized a range of electronic equipment, including a PC with a memory stick. Following advice, officers left the memory stick in the PC and recorded it as one exhibit . The member of the public later asked for confirmation that the memory stick had been seized. WYP checked their records and said they didn’t …

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Recommendations

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Recommendation 1

The IOPC recommends that West Yorkshire Police amend their Standard Operating Procedure called ‘Forensic examination of digital devices and electronic networks – supporting information document’ to say that, if a memory device is left in computer equipment at the time of seizure, the seizure record must clearly identify the memory device using a separate exhibit reference. Do you accept the recommendation? No I think we should reject it as I have just checked and this is already covered in our force policy (albeit you have to click through a link to find it).

Addressed to: West Yorkshire Police

Linked bodies: West Yorkshire Police

Awaiting response