Retention and disposal policies - Information management

CCTV recording

  • Retention: Retain recordings for 31 days after recording
  • Disposal: Destroy
  • Authority: Home Office National CCTV Strategy report 2007
  • Scope: CCTV recordings from SCC owned, operated or commissioned cameras or surveillance equipment

Information access management 

  • Retention: Retain records 6 years after date created
  • Disposal: Destroy
  • Authority: SCC business need based on National Archives Guidance
  • Scope: Information access request processing, data publication re‐use and licensing.

Information security management 

  • Retention: Retain records 3 years after date created
  • Disposal: Destroy
  • Authority: SCC business need based on Computer Misuse Act 1990 s.11
  • Scope: Incident response and investigation, compliance audit

Records storage management

  • Retention: Retain records for lifetime of organisation
  • Disposal: Transfer to new authority
  • Authority: SCC business need based on Freedom of Information Act s. 46 Code of Practice
  • Scope: Records transfer processing, retrieval, disposal Excluding equipment and premises

Regulation of investigatory powers act processing 

  • Retention: Retain central record for 1 year after inspection / Retain originals 6 years after end of prosecution
  • Disposal: Destroy
  • Authority: SCC business need
  • Scope: RIPA application forms and approvals for directed surveillance and access to communications data

Voice call recording 

  • Retention: Retain 6 months after recording
  • Disposal: Destroy
  • Authority: SCC business need based on Financial Services Authority Telephone Recording: recording of voice conversations and electronic communications, Policy statement 08/1
  • Scope: Recordings of content of telephone calls