DNA is not everything!
The Guardian Online has an interesting article about DNA testing.
Only 33,000 of the 4.9m crimes the UK police recorded last year were solved as a result of a match on the national DNA database, police admitted today. However, Chief Constable Chris Sims, the Association of Chief Police Officers’ spokesman on the DNA database, told MPs it had played a much more significant part in the detection of serious and specific offences. He said DNA matches had played a crucial role in solving up to 40% of detected burglaries.
Sims was defending the rapid growth of the police DNA database in England and Wales, and the continued retention of DNA profiles of innocent people who have been arrested but never convicted of an offence. He was giving evidence to an inquiry by the Commons home affairs select committee inquiry into the DNA database, which is the largest in Europe.
You can read the article here.
DNA Swap/Guardian
Categories: Forensics, Miscarriages of Justice
Tags: Actual Innocence, DNA, Forensics, National DNA Database, UK