Plans for how long the DNA profiles of innocent people will be kept on the national database for England and Wales are being unveiled. The Home Office will signal a retreat on adults arrested but cleared, who will all have their DNA …
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JURIST - Paper Chase: UK home office announces proposal to remove innocent people from DNA Database. … UK home office announces proposal to remove innocent people from DNA Database Carrie Schimizzi at 3:27 PM ET …
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Its police state by inching incriments, the reason they adopt halfway measures like this, rather than simply insisting that everyone supply DNA, is that if they came out and said they wanted a nationwide DNA database with every citizen …
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Suspicion alone is not enough to keep adding 400000 profiles a year to the database, this has to stop and no excuse is good enough to keep the innocent persons DNA in a database, just in case. Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, …
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I wonder how many innocent people’s DNA would be on say, stolen used bank notes! Arnie, Bristol The Government and the police can keep my DNA on a database, …
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Up to one million people with no criminal convictions have their DNA profiles stored on the database, the largest of its kind in the world.
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The DNA of innocent people is expected to be removed from the national database after a maximum of six years. [11 November 2009]
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About Science-Nature - The database has helped solve 32200 crimes - 0.7% of all crime The DNA of most innocent people arrested in England and Wales.
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The proposals also recommended strengthening the police’s powers to obtain a DNA sample. If approved, the police could take DNA samples from anyone convicted abroad, or convicted before the creation of the DNA database in 1995. …
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But if that is taken to its logical conclusion, then everyone’s DNA profiles should be compulsorily taken and stored in a huge DNA database. And to say that it’s ok to keep innocent people’s DNA profiles for six years, but that it’s not …
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