The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered London’s police force to urgently step up its data protection policies and training after failings in two cases, including the Westminster honeytrap case. One officer involved had not completed data protection training for more than four years before they broke data rules. It also wrongly sent out the names and contact details of three witnesses to the defendant. The defendant later contacted the victim on her new number and said he had received documents containing her new contact details from police. "One breach exposed a stalking victim’s new contact details to the person she needed protection from.