Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, at what stage during an arrest and subsequent policy custody stay police officers should review (a) the Police National Computer and (b) other information sources for previous convictions.

The Police National Computer is the primary source of information on convictions in the United Kingdom. Convictions of EU nationals can be obtained from the country of nationality for EU nationals via the UK Central Authority for the Exchange of Criminal Records (UKCA-ECR). Decisions on when a police officer should check the PNC and the UKCA-ECR are operational matters for the police.