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OH devices taken last year, no updates apart from saying devices have been outsourced. What does this mean? Is this a good thing or a bad thing or indifferent?
If someone can tell me what this means in more detail please reply
OH devices taken last year, no updates apart from saying devices have been outsourced. What does this mean? Is this a good thing or a bad thing or indifferent?
If someone can tell me what this means in more detail please reply
It most likely means the police have sent the device to seperate forensic lab for examination, rather than dealing with it themselves. It won't make a lot of difference.
Hi, my husband stuff was outsourced and the oic told us it has up to 500 days to be checked, it took just under that. It's because there's such a backlog there having to send it to a private company.
Hi everyone
So outsourcing devices to be checked isn't necessarily a bad thing or a good thing?
So outsourcing devices to be checked isn't necessarily a bad thing or a good thing?
I would say it's a good thing and that they are trying to reduce the back log. We were over 3 years from knock to charging due to the immense back log of the whole system. I hope you get good news. X
It means they've been sent to an outside of the Police company to be forensically examined. When my ex was arrested the Police took thousands of pounds worth of equipment. We never got any of it back unless I paid the outsourcing company £70 per hour to go through each separate item. The Police only paid for three items to be examined which were the ones my ex used exclusively. Once the Police have got what they're looking for they don't bother filing through all the other devices but they wouldn't release them back to us just in case until I'd paid for them to be looked at. There's no way I could afford that. We lost a brand new PC that my son bought with his Christmas money, his raspberry pi, the main pc with all my family photos on, various cameras, an iPad, the router, this list was 2 A4 sheets worth!
Sydhuds, it doesn't mean anything either way. It's just part of the investigation. The outsourcing company have very specialist systems to scan the devices. They know exactly what to look for. It saved the Police time and means that they can carry on dealing with other aspects of the investigation while the outsourcing company deals with the equipment.
Littlerobin
my husbands stuff was outsourced and we got everything back and didn't have to pay anything!! That doesn't sound right that you had to pay. Was there anything found? My husband had nothing on any of his devices, not sure if that makes any difference to why you'd have to pay or not.
it's neither good or bad it just means the police are so busy they've had to get a private company to search them.
my husbands stuff was outsourced and we got everything back and didn't have to pay anything!! That doesn't sound right that you had to pay. Was there anything found? My husband had nothing on any of his devices, not sure if that makes any difference to why you'd have to pay or not.
it's neither good or bad it just means the police are so busy they've had to get a private company to search them.
Confusedwife,
The Police wrote to me after The Knock about the devices. They were all listed. They went through the three devices my ex admitted to having images on. Once they got what they wanted, they didn't carry on looking through the rest of our belongings because it would have cost too much and was highly unlikely there would be anything found. When we got to Court, the judge ordered the destruction of the ex's three devices. The rest, as stated in the letter from the Police, I could have returned to me if I paid the outsourcing company £70 per hour to go through them all so make sure there wasn't anything illegal on them. It would have cost thousands and thousands. They took 6 people's devices! I challenged it higher up in the Police and even went to my MP. Its my area Police's policy and that was that. I lost all my family photos too. Now here's the part that blew my mind. A few years later I phoned them to find out what happened to all those devices. The reply was, "they were all broken down my the Police tech department and used as parts for the Police to use". I kid you not. I'm still so so so angry about it. X
The Police wrote to me after The Knock about the devices. They were all listed. They went through the three devices my ex admitted to having images on. Once they got what they wanted, they didn't carry on looking through the rest of our belongings because it would have cost too much and was highly unlikely there would be anything found. When we got to Court, the judge ordered the destruction of the ex's three devices. The rest, as stated in the letter from the Police, I could have returned to me if I paid the outsourcing company £70 per hour to go through them all so make sure there wasn't anything illegal on them. It would have cost thousands and thousands. They took 6 people's devices! I challenged it higher up in the Police and even went to my MP. Its my area Police's policy and that was that. I lost all my family photos too. Now here's the part that blew my mind. A few years later I phoned them to find out what happened to all those devices. The reply was, "they were all broken down my the Police tech department and used as parts for the Police to use". I kid you not. I'm still so so so angry about it. X