Will police track my IP and disclose my identity

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Last night I made an anonymous report to police about my neighbours partner. Who I knew was breaching a court order by being with him and who is violent.

The police have yet to arrest him but he is aware a report was made
My neighbour has now told me and others neighboured that she has a friend who works for the police who is going to trace who made the report

Obviously I know the police can trace it, and that they ordinarily wouldn’t as I haven’t committed a crime

But could an officer really just decide to trace it and then disclose my details to their friend?

Also, they are making that up. Police won't reveal their sources; well they are not supposed to anyways.

This won’t happen! It’s a breach of every data law going and would take ages and all sorts of authorisation and applications to trace it which would not be given in these circumstances. It has to be sent to specialist places as well, a regular officer can’t do it themselves.

Despite what they show in movies this is not how IPs works. An IP can be up to something like 20000 people and change every time you turn your pc on and off. you certainly could not pin point a single house with it.

If you could it would be much easier to arrest terrorists and pedophiles

Sorry thought you wrote you did it via computers but realise you didn't say that. Must be Friday Fever! but same prinples apply to phone calls.

And if a police officer did trace your call then they would be fired with immediate effect as they have no reason to look up someone's data.

That would never happen. What it tells you though is she thinks it is you and is trying to scare you.

I honestly wouldn’t worry, IP’s are dynamic (they change whenever you log into your device) and it would take a hell of a lot of digging to find exactly where you are. It would have to be done by a specialist, not some random admin person who works at a police station. My IP currently has me 22 miles from where I actually live. She’s just trying to figure out who reported them, by scaring people.

She is talking rubbish. Just ignore her

If there was a data breach like that whoever was responsible would lose their job. Don't worry.

My ex tried this with me someone sent an anonymous letter to his girlfriend detailing his last few arrests suggested she did a claires law to find out about him (she isnt local so wouldn't know about him) he rang me telling me his police mate would be tracking the letter and having them "done" for slander nothing happened he was trying to get me to admit I did it and failed he tried it with all his exes threatening his one saying he "knew" it was her she laughed 😅

@Theunamedcat slander is only slander if its untrue 🤣🤣

If they want to break the official secrets act and get sacked