IN yet another Government IT disaster, a £244million project to monitor dangerous criminals has collapsed.
The C-Nomis computer system was supposed to share information between prison and probation staff to allow newly-freed convicts to be properly supervised.
Work on the project last summer was frozen after costs more than doubled to £155 million.
It will now be introduced in a watered down format. And still the Government want us to trust them with an IT scheme to issue us all with identity cards.
Could we trust this Government which has a dismal record on handling people's confidential information on computers?
I think not.
COUNCILLOR D PEARSON, Roe Lee Ward, Blackburn.
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