DNA: Databases
(asked on 13th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2015 to Question 3770, if she will take steps to ensure that the DNA profiles of prisoners who have been imprisoned since before DNA profiles were taken on arrest are on the DNA database.
This question was answered on 17th July 2015
Work was done in 1997 and 2003 to take DNA from prisoners who were imprisoned before DNA samples were routinely taken on arrest.
If the police follow standard practice consistently, then subsequent prisoners’ DNA profiles are on the database because they were taken on arrest. So it is not necessary to take prisoners’ DNA now.