The true facts minus the jimmie made up shit.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42431171
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/15/scotland-yard-carrying-out-urgent-assessment-after-trial-collapses

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/21/two-ex-police-officers-investigated-alleged-data-breaches-damian/

It does no favours to either society or the police for as long as these obvious failures continue to occur.
The system is in dire need of reform and the usual suspects hammering on to make purely political capital out of the subject seem totally oblivious to the flaws in the present structure of policing. Much of the problem stems from the politicisation of the police under Blair's
maladministration.