None
Financial penalty
Enforcement notice, no fine
18 January 2024
Date on the register
Data Protection Act 2018
Law relied on
DPA 2018 section 149, DPA 2018 section 150
Criminal justice
Sector
26 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO issued Crown Prosecution Service with a enforcement notice on 18 January 2024 under the Data Protection Act 2018. No financial penalty attaches to it.
01The record
- Organisation named
- Crown Prosecution Service
- Action
- Enforcement notice
- Date published
- 18 January 2024
- Register year
- 2024
- Law relied on
- Data Protection Act 2018
- Provisions cited
- DPA 2018 section 149, DPA 2018 section 150, DPA 2018 section 40
- Penalty
- None (not a financial penalty)
- Sector on the register
- Criminal justice
- ICO register reference
- 17334
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 1 PDF published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 26 of 216 actions (12%)
- Actions published that year
- 52
- Actions under this law
- 8
- Position on the register
- 118th of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- This entry alone
- Entries for this organisation
- 2 on this register
02What happened, and where it sits
Crown Prosecution Service received an ICO enforcement notice on 18 January 2024. The Commissioner acted under the Data Protection Act 2018, citing DPA 2018 section 149, DPA 2018 section 150 and DPA 2018 section 40. An order to act. An enforcement notice requires the organisation to take, or stop taking, specified steps by a deadline, and failure to comply is itself an offence.
No sum is attached to this action. Enforcement notices are corrective, not financial, which is why Crown Prosecution Service appears on the register without a figure beside it.
Crown Prosecution Service is filed under Criminal justice, which accounts for 26 of the 216 actions on the register (12%). In 2024 the ICO published 52 enforcement actions in total, 17 of them enforcement notices. 8 actions on the register name Data Protection Act 2018.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 118th of 216 actions on the register and the 12th of 26 in Criminal justice. Crown Prosecution Service appears 2 times on this register: reprimand on 12 August 2022 and enforcement notice on 18 January 2024. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 158 KB in total: "Crown Prosecution Service enforcement notice". It is the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
An Enforcement Notice has been issued to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to a contravention of the sixth data protection principle in section 40 DPA 2018. The contravention was identified following an investigation into the disclosure of an unencrypted USB device, containing personal data, to an unauthorised third party.
The law behind this action
Data Protection Act 2018
The Data Protection Act 2018 carries the UK GDPR into domestic law, sets out the separate law-enforcement and intelligence-services regimes in Parts 3 and 4, and creates the criminal offences the ICO prosecutes.
What a enforcement notice does
An order to act. An enforcement notice requires the organisation to take, or stop taking, specified steps by a deadline, and failure to comply is itself an offence.
Published notice
- PDFCrown Prosecution Service enforcement notice(158 KB)
04Other entries for Crown Prosecution Service
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Prosecution Service | 12 Aug 2022 | Reprimand | Data Protection Act 2018 | - |
05Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) | 27 Jul 2026 | Enforcement notice | Data Protection Act 2018 | - |
| South Wales Police | 26 Aug 2022 | Reprimand | Data Protection Act 2018 | - |
| Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis/ Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) | 27 Jul 2026 | Reprimand | Data Protection Act 2018 | - |
| South Wales Police | 9 Oct 2025 | Enforcement notice | UK GDPR | - |
| Chief Constable Devon and Cornwall Police | 2 Feb 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
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Provenance and independence
Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GDPRFine.com is an independent tracker of ICO enforcement. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Information Commissioner's Office, and it uses no ICO branding. Where the ICO's own wording is reproduced it is quoted and attributed; everything else on these pages is our own summary of the published record.
The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.
An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2024/01/crown-prosecution-service-1/.
Register: ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/. Corrections: [email protected].