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Criminal records checks: Bureau launches five-year strategy

The Criminal Records Bureau announced a five-year strategy for improvement on Monday (22 May), a day after it admitted wrongly labelling people as criminals.

During the next five years the bureau plans to develop online andelectronic procedures. And it hopes to improve methods of exchangingcriminal record information with foreign countries.

Figures show that 2,273 people have been mistaken for criminals since2002. But a spokesman said this was because individuals' details weresimilar or identical to someone else's conviction data.

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