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Van de politie riskeert het DNA- gegevensbestand `als misdaad bestempelend niet-overtreders'
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Door Ben Russell
De mensen worden toegevoegd aan het van de Overheid nationale DNA- gegevensbestand naar rato van meer dan één een minuut, hebben de cijfers van de Liberale Democraten geopenbaard.
Hun onderzoek toonde aan dat 547.020 profielen vorig jaar werden toegevoegd, het equivalent van 62 per uur, leidend tot eisen dat de ministers Groot-Brittannië in een „headlong stormloop“ naar een toezichtstaat namen aangezien de aantallen op het controversiële politieverslag vier miljoen bedekten.
Gisteren stelde de Menselijke Commissie van de Genetica, een overheid-gesteunde waakhond, een belangrijk onderzoek naar het gebruik van DNA- verslagen door politie in. Due to report in the spring, it will look at the size of the DNA database, the large number of black men whose samples are recorded, and the difficulties in removing samples once they are entered into the system.
It emerged that senior police officers have warned the database might criminalise law-abiding people. Alex Marshall, Deputy Chief Constable of Thames Valley, said in a response to the Home Office’s review of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act that “extending the taking of samples to all offences may be perceived as indicative of the increasing criminalisation of the generally law-abiding citizen”.
A spokeswoman for the Commission for Racial Equality said: “Statistics paint a frightening picture. Black men are four times more likely than white men to have their DNA profiles stored in the police national DNA database. In the interests of fairness we would like to call for DNA profiles to be limited to those that are convicted only.”
The Home Office insists that the DNA database - the largest in the world - is a vital tool in the fight against crime. But critics warn that the system could lead to discrimination against ethnic minorities. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, who obtained the figures, said: “The Government’s onward march towards a surveillance state has now become a headlong rush. They seem determined to hoover up the DNA details of as many people as they can, regardless of guilt or innocence.”
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