Criminal record evidence

A criminal record (KAN) is a central directory of the German police for recording and linking entries in various other files.

The criminal record evidence is basically a pure file verification system, i.e. a directory of investigation files of the German federal or state police that are available about a person. All essential information about criminal proceedings relating to a person is stored in criminal files by the police . References to these criminal files are electronically available to the individual state police , the BKA and all authorities with access to INPOL -KAN via criminal file records.

KAN enables access to paper documents, but may also contain some basic case data from which an overview of the allegations against the person concerned can be obtained.

INPOL -KAN is accessible nationwide and only acts that are of transnational, international or significant significance may be stored.

In connection with the introduction of INPOL-new , the police will extend the INPOL -KAN to all other acts of a person that are already stored with an INPOL-relevant act. However, data protection officers consider this extension to be illegal.

Bavaria

There are currently 1.6 million records of people stored in the Bavarian criminal record. This makes the KAN in Bavaria the largest such file in a federal state. The legal basis in Bavaria for the storage of personal data in the KAN is Article 54 of the Bavarian Police Tasks Act (PAG).

Web links

The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information - Data Protection at the Police PDF file. Accessed August 7, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ Claudia Gürkov: Police Databases - Whoever comes in stays in . In: br.de . July 2, 2015. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved on August 7, 2015.

↑ The Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection (BayLfD): Storage of personal data by the police . In: datenschutz-bayern.de . Retrieved October 1, 2017.

↑ [ http://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/BayPAG-54 PAG - Art. 54 Storage, modification and use of data] . In: gesetze-bayern.de . Retrieved May 29, 2018.

[1] Claudia Gürkov: Police Databases - Whoever comes in stays in . In: br.de . July 2, 2015. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved on August 7, 2015.

[2] The Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection (BayLfD): Storage of personal data by the police . In: datenschutz-bayern.de . Retrieved October 1, 2017.

[3] [ http://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/BayPAG-54 PAG - Art. 54 Storage, modification and use of data] . In: gesetze-bayern.de . Retrieved May 29, 2018.