Force may have failed to protect people at risk after Clare’s law applicants given wrong information

A police force is reviewing thousands of applications made under Clare’s law, which gives people the right to ask whether a partner has a violent past, after it came to light that wrong or incomplete information has been given.

Wiltshire police is to review more than 3,500 Clare’s law applications made between April 2015 and 2023, and one member of staff has been suspended.

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