Hello I am new here and was hoping someone may be able to help.
Around 8 months ago my house was searched by police looking for drugs and my son (20 years old) was asked to attend a voluntary interview.
They didn't find any drugs and said the reason for the search was that they were given "information" that he was dealing. However they did find what they called drugs "paraphernalia".
My son had been on a night out with friends and taken something which he has admitted to me. Since no drugs were found the police did not take the matter any further and gave him "words of advice", so he didn;t get a caution or anything.
Now, 8 months later he is looking for work after finishing his college course. He is concerned that it may show up on jobs with enhanced disclosure. So we applied for a subject access request from the police, but there is nothing on there about the drugs search or the voluntary interview. We did ask for everything that they had on the police computer and the email states "I refer to your recent subject access request for disclosure of any data held in your name on the Police National Computer (PNC)." then gives the details in another document.
My questions:
- Could he still be under investigation and they have kept it from the report?
- Could they have simply decided not to add it to the police computer?
- Should I ask them to check and risk them adding it on to their information? i.e. it was overlooked.
Thanks in advance for any advice, the purpose was so he could explain if it came up at a job interview. Now we don't know whether it will or it wont which is causing us some concern.