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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Andrew Buckwell

Firm behind Post Office scandal given £48million to run Police National Computer

The computer firm blamed for the scandal that put innocent Post Office workers in jail has landed a new contract – to run the Police National Computer.

The Home Office has handed Fujitsu a £48million four-year deal to maintain a vital database tracking the records and whereabouts of criminals and suspects across the country.

That is despite glitches in the Japanese firm’s Horizon software causing accounting shortfalls at subpost offices between 2000 and 2014.

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