> The authorities said that the problems stemmed partly from police I.T. systems and partly from the phone companies’ systems, although a telecom industry representative said he could not understand how phone companies could have caused the errors.

It appears data came from the telecom companies and straight to the police's IT department. I'm not sure what parties you're referring to?

Unless you're suggesting not to use data from telecom companies? In which case how would they get any records at all?