I have used the officer bulk export to make a database of officers, and I would like to keep it up to date using the officer stream.
In the bulk product officers are identified by a “person number” (eg 047170140001), but this is not present in the JSON objects sent in the streaming API.
The question is how to match up an officer event from the streaming api with an officer previously stored in a database from the bulk export.
Full date of birth is not provided, so it is not possible to identify officers by date of birth + name. Addresses could change over time so can’t be used.
Is there any way to identify officers in order match up events in the stream with records in a database?
Has anyone else had this problem/found a solution?
Many thanks,
Brian