Police National Legal Database

Start date: 1 January 1994
End date: 31 December 2004
Primary investigator: Dr Aisha Walker

A team from the West Yorkshire Police has established a wide-ranging database of legal information of relevance to police officers.

The research project involves the legal audit of the database.

Professor Clive Walker is the principal grant holder, the co-ordinator of the auditing process and the primary researcher.

Since its inception in 1994, the project has become national and managerial control of the PNLD today is held by an ACPO Advisory Board.

Project Publications

Walker, C. (1997) Internal cross-border policing, Cambridge Law Journal, 56, pp.114-146.

Walker, C. and Harlow, D. (2005) The Police National Legal Database: A farewell to the Ways and Means Act?, Justice of the Peace, 169, pp.410-411.