A POLICE official has been fined �1,000 for accessing the personal data of people who had reported crimes.
Stuart Harrison, 52, was working in Humberside Police's Crime Management Branch in Hull when he was caught stealing personal data from the police computer.
He accessed the data between January 11 and February 18 last year.
Harrison, who worked as a civilian officer, left the force last year following the incident.
A police spokesman said: "He accessed confidential files, referring to crimes, as during his employment he was authorised to do so.
"The charges related to the fact that he removed information from the force before resigning and kept it on his home computer.
"It is not believed that this data was used for malicious purposes."
Harrison pleaded guilty at Hull Magistrates Court to knowing and recklessly obtaining a quantity of personal data from Humberside Police's computer systems, contrary to the Data Protection Act.
The court has ordered that all the documents he seized should be destroyed.
He was fined �1,000 and was ordered to pay a �15 victim surcharge and �85 court costs.
Harrison, of Abbey Rise, Barrow-upon-Humber, resigned from the force last year.
He was based in the Crime Management Team in Hull as a civilian officer and had previously been the Holmes Development manager with the force's Major Incident Team in Driffield. Harrison had worked for Humberside Police for nearly 20 years.
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