Britain Mistakenly Labels Innocent Citizens As Criminals
Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Contributor
London, UK (AHN) - Britain’s beleaguered Home Office admitted labeling nearly 1,500 innocent people as criminals by mistake, sparking a fresh controversy. The Mail on Sunday said many law-abiding citizens lost jobs or were barred from taking courses because they had been wrongly classed as pornographers, thieves and violent robbers. The victims had to go to their local police station to be fingerprinted in order to clear their name from records, it said. The Home Office said the people had been mistakenly labeled as criminals after their identities were confused with real offenders due to similar or identical details, when the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) carried out checks on individuals applying for jobs working in positions of trust with children or vulnerable adults. The scandal will prove a challenge for new Home Secretary John Reid who took over the Home Office from Charles Clake earlier this month.
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