DNA- gegevensbestandzwabbers meer dan 100.000

Meer dan 100.000 mensen in Kent zijn toegevoegd aan het DNA- gegevensbestand in de laatste vijf jaar het is geopenbaard. Volgens cijfers die in het kader van het Akte van de Vrijheid worden vrijgegeven van Informatie, werden 103.830 steekproeven genomen en een meer dan kwart was van mensen onder 18.

Al verzamelde DNA wordt opgeslagen permanent op het nationale gegevensbestand.

Det Supt Colin Croucher, van de Politie van Kent, zei de zwabbersteekproeven regelmatig in gevallen van burglary en voertuigmisdaad werden gebruikt.

“And of course it was very significant in the case of the M25 rapist a few years back,” he added.

Mr Croucher said the force was keen to ensure that it had “the best opportunity to be able to use DNA appropriately and to have DNA samples on record.

“So where the law’s allowed us to take those samples, we’ve taken them,” he said.

DNA collected ranges from people who voluntarily give police a swab in order to eliminate themselves from investigations, to convicted rapists and murderers.

Since 2004, the data of everyone arrested for a recordable offence in England and Wales - all but the most minor offences - has remained on the system regardless of their age, the seriousness of their alleged offence, and whether or not they were prosecuted.

Opponents are worried about the number of innocent people whose data is still on file even though they have not been charged with a crime

Phil Booth, of the NO2ID campaign against identity cards, said: “This policy of putting on DNA samples and DNA profiles that shouldn’t necessarily be there is undermining the matching process itself.

“There’s the danger that someone may be fingered incorrectly, and it’s already beginning to happen.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7238582.stm

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