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Originally Posted by Hugh
I would discipline them (and actually have done so in the past - but not fired them) - but that’s breaking a workplace policy (if there was one in place), not breaking the law.
However, what we wouldn’t have been allowed to do, as it would be an abuse of process and would have invalidated the disciplinary process, was find out information as part of another investigation, not say anything about it, leave the job, and then make that information public a number of years later.
That would breach the Data Protection Act, and the contract of confidentiality I had signed when I was employed.
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I did actually come on here to say imo he'd been hung it to dry by amongst others 2 already discredited former police officers over something that happened years ago but was frankly a tiny bit annoyed by some of the comments not only excusing him but saying it's okay because many other people do it and their all hypocrites, what possessed me to take him of ignore I'll never know. Besides which its he's not in a normal workplace, he compromised highly sensitive information on a computer paid for in part by you and I, the more I think about it the worse this sounds, to me anyway.