A woman asked South Wales Police for information about her partner's history of violence and the force informed him she'd asked, a damning report from the Information Commissioner has revealed. The breach is one of two serious data mistakes the force made for which it was criticised by the watchdog.
The woman's identity was disclosed to her partner when she applied for information about him in April 2020 under the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS), also known as Clare’s Law. The partner had previous convictions for violence and sexual assault and was being managed by an officer from South Wales Police who was acting as his offender manager. In this incident the identity of the applicant was disclosed during a conversation between the partner and the offender manager.
The second incident reported happened in February 2020 when a police officer disclosed a woman's identity after she made an application for information under the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme (CSODS), also known as Sarah’s Law, according to the ICO.
