9 February 2011 – Scrutiny of Police National Legal Database – PNLD
On 9 February 2011 pedlars.admin@gmail.com submitted the following message using the PNLD contact form for Sussex Police:
As a matter of public importance our attention has been drawn to inaccuracies in Q238 & 239 regarding pedlary. Please provide procedure to address the issues.
On 9 Feb 2011 pnld@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk wrote:
If you could please let us know in what respect you believe that the FAQs are inaccurate we will make any necessary amendments.
Regards
PNLD
On 9 Feb 2011 pedlars.info responded:
PNLD
Sir/Madam
Thank you for responding.
Please see attached document that has been quickly prepared and does not claim to be thorough nor referenced but indicates the scale of the
problems – see attached file: PNLD database.pdf
The background to these edits relies on a thorough knowledge about the legislation and I refer you to that public information at pedlars.info
website.
Please confirm what formal procedure is available for us to have an input into correcting this database to more accurately represent the law.
sincerely
Robert
On 16 February 2011 Andrew Holt responded:
Robert
We are grateful for your assistance in ensuring our information is accurate and will be making amendments to our answers based on your recommendations.
Whilst we must ensure that our answers are legally accurate, you must appreciate that our answers aim to provide basic information to members of the public who are interested in acting as a pedlar. We wish to inform them of the kind of activity that would require a certificate and the process of acquiring one. We feel our answers, on the whole, achieve this. We do not claim to be an authority on pedlary and believe that including the many nuances of caselaw on the subject would make our answers more difficult for a casual reader to understand.
However, we would like to include a link on the relevant pages to your website so that those members of the public who wish to gain more
information can do so. Such a link would be provided on the right hand side of the question in the ‘related information’ section.
Regards,
Andrew Holt
Legal Adviser
PNLD
On 18 February 2011
Dear Andrew
Thank you for your reply though it is not clear… you say you will be making amendments and then go on to say you feel your answers are satisfactory… which is it?
I am sure the link will assist enquirers but of greater concern is that you may intend changing nothing in which case I must escalate this concern.
The answers to the questions can be rewritten and as a matter of public importance should be.
I await your reply
sincerely
Robert
On 18 February 2011 PNLD replied:
Robert
The answers to the aforementioned questions are being reviewed and will be amended as appropriate.
The information you have provided has been very useful and will be consulted during the review process, along with the insertion of a link to
your website.
Regards,
PNLD
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Pedlars.info received no further communication
9 November 2014 link to latest: https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q239.htm#
see also link to “20 October 2014 – Scrutiny of Metropolitan Police & Pedlary”