Military Convictions

Mr. Clegg
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what procedures there are for adding military convictions which occur (a) in the UK and (b) overseas to the police national computer.

John Reid
[holding answer 16 January 2007]: Military convictions for recordable offences, regardless of whether they occur in the UK or overseas, are input through direct access to the police national computer (PNC) by the Central Criminal Records and Intelligence Office of the Service Police Crime Bureau.