A National Police Database was the key recommendation of the Bichard Inquiry into the failings of the Soham murders police in 2002.
It was found that the police are not on details of the allegations against Ian Huntley disclose a year before he murdered Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both 10th
Privacy activists say, not non-criminals should be on the system.
The database, which brings together 150 separate computer systems, combined with findings from the 43 police authorities in England and Wales.
The eight police in Scotland, the British Transport Police, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), the severity and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the military police left.
Together the forces hold information on between 10-15m people. These include convicted criminals, suspects and victims of crime, and the details of the people who were questioned by police but not charged.
The database is run by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA).
The Bichard inquiry said the police should be able to automatically have information on suspects by another force access.
Tenth Anniversary
Holly's father Kevin Wells said the introduction of the system was a "defining moment" that it borders more difficult for criminals, police would use as a shield to avoid detection.
He said the database was "the perfect end product befitting such a high-profile inquiry."
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Nobody has a problem with a database of criminals, but we should never build a database of innocent people and victims of crime "
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In a letter to NPIA, Mr. Wells wrote: "In the same way as we shared our positive emotions and private views to you and the team, it is the desire to shout about this success there and herald his success to a wider audience arrival.
"It still would be an appropriate response from two parents to experience a defining moment for the passing of their daughter to mark."
He said it could be the 10th Anniversary of Holly's death to make next year "so much easier to bear."
Sharon and Les Chapman, parents of Jessica, said: "We hope that [the database] does use, not like other families under the same loss and heartache as we do."
Lord Bichard, who first recommended a national database in 2004, they responded to a single database with as much information to say it was a matter of "balancing the risk of someone hacking into the system with the risk of further Huntley. "
Privacy concerns
His investigation had found that Humberside and Cambridge police properly vet Huntley, a school janitor who was accused of several sex-related crimes have failed.
There were eight separate pieces of intelligence on Huntley but they were not together, because they kept separate by police were brought.
NPIA chief Nick Gargan said: "Many people will be surprised to know that the police has not this ability has been for many years to be The good news is that they have it now.."
Privacy campaign group, said Big Brother Watch, it was concerned that details of members of the public on the database could be logged.
Spokesman Daniel Hamilton said: "Nobody has a problem with a database of criminals, but we should never build a database of innocent people and victims of crime.
"The risk of these data in the hands of criminals is too horrible to comprehend."
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