Police Scotland’s take on new data laws is putting women and children in danger, domestic abuse campaigners have warned.
Leading charities say police officers are now “scared” to share vital information at meetings set up to help domestic abuse victims for fear of falling foul of European-wide GDPR rules introduced to give people more control over the data collected on them.
Organisations have also said GDPR is hampering prosecutors’ ability to pursue domestic abuse perpetrators.
The problems centre on Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs), which are held across Scotland. They meet on a regular basis to discuss women, men and children at risk from the most serious levels of harm and violence.
Typically, the case meetings — which last between 12 and 15 minutes each