ExPolice Scotland employee charged with 44 data breaches Greenock Telegraph
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A FORMER member of Police Scotland staff is due to stand trial after she denied 44 charges of illegally accessing the personal data of dozens of people over a period spanning four years
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Joanna Miller 31 is alleged to have breached the Data Protection Act on several occasions between November 2020 and July 2023
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Almost all the alleged offences are said to have taken place at an address in Gourock
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She is charged with knowingly or recklessly obtaining information without the consent of a data controller by accessing Police Scotlands Crime Management System without a legitimate policing purpose
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Of the 44 charges she faces 39 refer to Miller obtaining and viewing personal data by accessing crime reports
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The remaining five concern data and photographs of Police Scotland personnel
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Two of these charges allege that she disclosed images of individuals via WhatsApp group chats
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Prosecutors say all but one of the alleged offences took place at a property in Gourocks Avonmouth Place
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She is also charged with accessing a crime report at London Road police office in Glasgow on April 19 last year
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Millers case called at Greenock Sheriff Court on Friday with defence solicitor Ellen MacDonald submitting a not guilty plea on her clients behalf
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Sheriff James Spy fixed a trial for January 22 next year
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The Telegraph understands Miller was not employed as a police officer and that she was initially suspended from her position within the force but has since resigned
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A spokesperson for Police Scotland said A 31yearold woman is subject of a report to the procurator fiscal in connection with the mishandling of police information
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A FORMER member of Police Scotland staff is due to stand trial after she denied 44 charges of illegally accessing the personal data of dozens of people over a period spanning four years
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Joanna Miller 31 is alleged to have breached the Data Protection Act on several occasions between November 2020 and July 2023
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Almost all the alleged offences are said to have taken place at an address in Gourock
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She is charged with knowingly or recklessly obtaining information without the consent of a data controller by accessing Police Scotlands Crime Management System without a legitimate policing purpose
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Of the 44 charges she faces 39 refer to Miller obtaining and viewing personal data by accessing crime reports
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The remaining five concern data and photographs of Police Scotland personnel
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Two of these charges allege that she disclosed images of individuals via WhatsApp group chats
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Image Newsquest
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Prosecutors say all but one of the alleged offences took place at a property in Gourocks Avonmouth Place
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She is also charged with accessing a crime report at London Road police office in Glasgow on April 19 last year
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Millers case called at Greenock Sheriff Court on Friday with defence solicitor Ellen MacDonald submitting a not guilty plea on her clients behalf
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Sheriff James Spy fixed a trial for January 22 next year
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The Telegraph understands Miller was not employed as a police officer and that she was initially suspended from her position within the force but has since resigned
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A spokesperson for Police Scotland said A 31yearold woman is subject of a report to the procurator fiscal in connection with the mishandling of police information
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