If a bailiff walks around your house or premises, taking photographs of valuables and documents, report it to the police because you are at serious risk of burglary or having your bank accounts compromised.

Under the Data Protection Act 2018, you also have the right to request these photographs to be destroyed.

Enforcement regulations do not provide for bailiffs to photograph your documents and valuables. The photographs are likely to aid in a burglary.

Before touching or moving the valuables the bailiff touched, report the incident to the police on the non-emergency 101 number and Inform them that bailiffs photographed your valuables and jewellery.

Write down the conversation, record the name of the officer you speak to, and make a note of the crime or incident reference number given to you.

Inform your bank that your account details may be compromised due to someone photographing documents in your home.

If the police say the crime is a civil matter, take extra precautions because, without police protection, your insurance might not pay if your home is burgled because police have placed bailiffs in class above the law.

Photograph the valuables that the bailiff photographed, including diamonds and jewellery, which will serve as evidence in case of burglary. Also, photograph the rooms the bailiff entered and all items the bailiff might have touched. Then, move and secure your valuables elsewhere.

Inform your bank and specify which accounts might be compromised.

Exercise your legal rights by sending a notice to the bailiff company, withdrawing your consent for them to process your data. This action is by Article 17 of the GDPR or Section 47 of the Data Protection Act 2018, which allows you to request the erasure of your data.

You have legal recourse if the bailiff company does not comply with your Article 17 notice. You can sue for damages, including loss or theft of valuables, under Article 82 of the GDPR or Section 168 of the Data Protection Act 2018.

Search online for the bailiff company’s name, address, and the bailiff's name on the public register of certified enforcement agents.

Search the bailiff company on the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Register of Fee Payers to find the name and address of their data controller.

Send the data controller of the bailiff company a notice to erase the photographs of your valuables, withdraw your consent for them to process these, and request confirmation of the photographs' destruction, then wait 30 days.

If the bailiff company does not comply or makes excuses, report your concern online to the ICO. The ICO will contact the data controller to enforce the notice, impose sanctions, or discontinue your complaint.

The ICO’s processing time for concerns is about ten weeks.

You can recover damages under Article 82 of the GDPR or Section 168 of the Data Protection Act 2018 for material and non-material damages, including the loss or theft of valuables photographed.