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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.