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A planned overhaul of the U.K.'s database of suspicious activity reports won't be completed for another three years at the soonest, despite calls from British lawmakers to replace the system by December. The database, known as ELMER, received more than 380,000 of the reports over a 12-month period in 2014 and 2015 but is designed to house only 20,000, U.K. officials said in April. Members of the House of Commons' Home Affairs Committee recommended earlier this month that ELMER be replaced with a "more robust" system by the end of the year. "We have been deeply concerned for some time...