Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime

Sockatume writes "The UK's Human Genetics Commission has published its report on the collection of DNA by the Police forces in England and Wales. Currently, Police collect DNA from every suspect in a case which could lead to a criminal record, and retain that material, which the European Court of Human Rights has ruled illegal. The government plans to keep all DNA samples for suspects from England, Wales and Northern Ireland for up to six years, except for DNA from individuals arrested during terrorism-related investigations, which will be retained forever. The report states that the police frequently performed arrests solely to collect DNA, that certain demographics (such as young, black men) were 'very highly over-represented,' that there was 'very little concrete evidence' that the DNA database had any actual use in investigating crime, and that the database contained material from individuals arrested in Scotland and Northern Ireland, outside its remit. Of the 4.5m individuals in the database, a fifth have never received any convictions or cautions from the Police. The report recommends that an independent advisory body oversee the database, and that laws be passed to limit the uses of the database, while tracking those with access to it, and making misuse of the information a criminal offence."

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enjoy your police state

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, America may be full of religious idiots who believe some bible over empirical evidence but at least the States aren't an orwellian nightmare of a police state that makes the DPRK look like the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

How do you Brits tolerate this on a daily basis? Hell, you can't even have real knives because mummy + doddy took them away from you.

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[Anonymous Coward]

You can. [No,

Re:The same should be done

[ground.zero.612]

On a wider note many such police/law enforcement databases need to be more thoroughly regulated, including things such as "Do Not Fly" lists and terrorism suspects.

You mean for people of middle east descent right?

There were no White, Black, or Asian terrorist attackers (for the 9/11, Cole, and Embassy attacks). The people we are fighting are Middle-East Muslims. The people that hijacked our planes, and blew them up or crashed them into buildings should be identified by their racial ethnicity.

Every time I fly, and see one of these God damned security assholes fucking with an old white/black/asian man or woman, I wish the TSA would all DIAF. Stop fucking pretending. Let the Middle-East Muslims cry racism/racial profiling. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING. Profiling every single person from the Middle East.

Don't like it? Lucky for you the USA gives you the freedom to leave. I suggest you do. We don't want you here because you are a burden on our society. How fucking dare you make us act like whites/blacks/asians are our enemy simply because we've fallen prey to Political Correctness. Fuck you Middle-East Muslims, and fuck you liberals for getting us into this God awful mess.