Police Custody: Photographs
2026-05-12 · Home Office · 136 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory requirement for the deletion of custody images after convictions for minor crimes are spent.
Answer
The retention and deletion of custody images is currently governed by the statutory Police and Information Management Code of Practice, and the associated College of Policing’s Management of Police Information (MoPI) guidance and Authorised Professional P...