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Police and UK Home Office officials were scrambling to recover the data but there are fears it has been permanently erased in what one former chief constable described as a risk to public safety.

POLICE are desperately trying to recover 150,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from databases.

The deletion from the Police National Computer related to people who were arrested but released without further action.

Policing minister Kit Malthouse spoke to reporters on Friday.

Officers are "working at pace" to recover the items deleted during a "standard housekeeping process", says the government.

Policing minister Kit Malthouse spoke to reporters on Friday.

Policing minister Kit Malthouse spoke to reporters on Friday.

The deletion from the Police National Computer related to people who were arrested but released without further action.

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC. The National Police Chiefs Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported. This resulted in a couple of "near misses" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said. The Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of th...

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