In the police computer there is information stored about many citizens and other persons like refugees, foreign tourists and other groups of people. The total number is unknown and how this network is linked to other networks like residents registration offices, marriage bureaus or bureaus of vital statistics.
If you ask the police for an excerpt from your personal police file you only get an edited list or a second degree excerpt. You only get a first degree excerpt under specific circumstances. As a normal citizen you always can only request a so-called “second degree excerpt”. You need a tricky lawyer to get amore information.
If you check your excerpt, you might not identify all entrances which can be all kinds of moments that the police had set an eye on you either as a reporter of instances or as the focus of police investigation. Finally these entrances which you can’t complain about can have a discriminating effect. Your connections can be registered like elective affinities, problematic memberships, networks of friends, quotations, former statements, suspected responsibility in unresolved crimes and many other parameters. In the worst case these entrances into the police computer in itself could have the effect of slander or character assassination and, when communicated, can seriously damage your reputation and minimize your human rights. As soon as false accusations are communicated by the police either during investigations or illegal recall of wrongly stored personal information, we have reached the point of linguistic corruption. A police computer has to be stripped of all kinds of speculative and uncertain information. Otherwise, it can destroy personalities and lifes and in the worst case could lead to revenge tragedies or even suicide. It might as well be problematic if third parties, family members or political opponents get acces to the personal data stored in a police computer. Besides, these data can vary from county to county and be overspecified in supercomputers, especially when artificial intelligence is involved which might tends to confabulate or construct a problematic outlook.
Aditionally the personal information in a police computer can be tagged for further processing even if the information is speculative, compromising or won by racial profiling and other problematic occurrences of police work.