ConDems Break Pledge Over DNA

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laresThu 28/07/11 15:11

"The DNA of more than one million innocent people will not be wiped from police records, The Daily Telegraph can disclose."

"Instead the police will retain DNA profiles in anonymised form, leaving open the possibility of connecting them up with people's names, ministers have admitted.

The admission appears to break a Coalition commitment to delete all innocent profiles, apart from those accused of violent or sex crimes, from police databases.

Civil liberties groups accused the Government of a 'disgraceful U-turn' and a 'breach of promise' to destroy innocent people's DNA."

"Currently, in England and Wales, the DNA profiles of everyone arrested for a recordable offence are retained by the police, regardless of whether they were charged or convicted.

This has meant that the police's national DNA database holds more than five million profiles, including one million people with no criminal conviction.

Experts say storing the DNA of innocent people gave them an unfair 'presumption of guilt' in the eyes of the police. The Coalition agreement last May said the Government would 'adopt the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database'.

DNA samples from innocent people would be deleted, apart from those accused of a sexual or violent offences, which would be held for five years. However, Home Office minister James Brokenshire admitted to MPs on a committee which is considering the legislation that police forces will retain innocent profiles."

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