Non-Molestation Order / Police Information Notices

Hi All,

I was dragged through the usual ex-parte Non-Mol route by my ex. When we got to inter-partes 5 days later, it was thrown out by the judge, but it was only this year, almost two years later, when a CAFCASS safeguarding check showed that the Non-Mol was still live against me on the police database! Anyway, jumped through various hoops with the police and got the bloody thing removed. Advice to others - actively check that the police pull these things off your file!

The other thing I apparently have on file is a bunch of PINs - Police Information Notices. These are where your ex makes spurious allegations against you (for example, "I saw him at the supermarket and I found this intimidating") and the police don''t even bother following them up with you, but they do log it against your name on their computers. You basically build up a criminal record without even knowing about it. And they''re still there, on your file, for the next check against your name, so when you get that job coaching your kid''s football team, it will come up! And as everyone assumes, to quote CAFCASS in a recent report they''ve helpfully prepared on behalf of my ex (!), "there''s no smoke without fire"!

So I was thinking about having a go at getting the the PINs against my name removed, there''s a good website about challenging them if you google this topic, which lists a number of approaches - data protection, human rights, police procedures and so on. Has anyone had any success with this? I get the impression different police forces have very different attitudes to all of this. I''ve got heavily redacted copies of all of the PINs through DPA requests (some were refused initially but I reapplied later on and a different person released the info). Any tips?! Thanks!

All very worrying.

My ex has been keeping up a string of threats to report me to the police for harassment and stalking over the last few years on the basis of her false or exaggerated allegations. I have contacted the police who say there have been no reports against me.

I had made a report and was given a PIN number some time ago but was told that the PIN cannot be copied to me without my ex''s agreement. All rather Kafka-esque.

Good luck with sorting yours out.

Thanks ignatz. You can put in a Data Protection request to view what they have on you.. One time they refused this because it would infringe on my ex''s data protection rights! What a joke! Anyway they granted a separate request and released the other info when I asked them to reconsider the first request. It''s heavily redacted but in a ridiculous way, e.g. it has my ex''s (very female) name but they''ve redacted the M/F sex box, and so on. There''s enough info to challenge them on it though. Good luck!