Question follow-through · 19790
Police: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to improve the effectiveness of data collection from mobile phones by the police in relation to crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to improve the effectiveness of data collection from mobile phones by the police in relation to crime.
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Digital Forensics Programme (DFP) scopes, develops and delivers innovative solutions to ensure policing can use high quality technology to tackle the rising volumes of digital forensics work, including forensic examinations of mobile phones, more effi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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Neighbourhood Policing
25 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help improve community policing.