TRULY THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE CIVIL SERVICE ASYLUM

 

21. Jan. 2010. – 11:17:54

The security of magistrates across Norfolk has been compromised after their personal contact details were mistakenly sent to a prison. The BBC has learned the magistrates' year book, containing names and phone numbers, was accidentally sent for printing to HMP Standford Hill in Kent.
Her Majesty's Courts Service's area director has written to all magistrates to say he is "desperately sorry". Hard copies of the document at the prison have now been destroyed.
Security procedures have been tightened to ensure the mistake did not happen again, a spokesman for HMCS said.
The above was published earlier today on the BBC website.

It seems that government departments and of course some of their employees are operating in a different universe from the rest of us. After all the high profile cases of missing documents, DVDs with legs, laptops left everywhere but where they should be left one would have thought that right down to the shredding department in a basement in Whitehall the possibly illegal immigrant doing the shredding would have been warned to exercise extra care. Custody is designed partly to attempt the rehabilitation of prisoners. Teaching them to read [one third are illiterate] is surely preferable to having them print any sort of confidential material.

This is a serious disciplinary matter and in in some quarters would justify immediate dismissal of those directly responsible. Will that happen in Norfolk? Bet your very last bottom dollar it will not. Employment legislation makes it difficult enough in the private sector to sack employees without risking a fortune on legal fees but in the Civil Service.....it`s about time that term was changed....any offers???........it`s damn near impossible.