RE: Government Noses

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 06 September 2003 13:14
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Government Noses
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
> >Or perhaps you can explain how you manage to obtain such 
> information without
> >prior surveillance of people who are only suspected of 
> benefit fraud,  in
> >such a way that your success hit rate is very nearly 100%?
> 
> Don't laugh, but the DWP Bill Team working on the SSF Bill assured 
> industry that they had a 99% conviction rate when prosecuting 
> benefits 
> fraud, and therefore really did only want data on actual criminals.

But that is not what I was saying...

I was pointing out that if, as Simon would have it, they are not collecting
information on the public at large,  their rate of accurately identifying
people as criminal or not must be nearly 100% before they even start
collecting the intelligence, let alone contemplating the prosecution.

Dave.