Home Office climbs down over keeping DNA records on innocent

Monday 26 October 2009 at 7:59 am | In News | Post Comment
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The Home Office has announced that its plan to keep the DNA profiles of those arrested – but never convicted of a crime – for between six and 12 years depending on the seriousness of the offence has been dropped from the policing and crime bill that is going through parliament.

A European court ruling in December found it was unlawful to keep the DNA details of 850,000 innocent people indefinitely on the national database.
Guardian article here

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