The DNA-Police
...A samples. Over the next three years they want to expand the criminal database to 3,5 million samples. This will mean that 1 out of every 15 people in Britain will be holded as DNA profiles at the police. That's why the government is giving the police the necesarry equipment so they could collect and keep DNA samples from suspects. It doesn't matter if they turn out to be innocent. Of course the DNA evidence is helping police with their work. Since 1995, there have been more than 100,000 crime scenes. All of these crime scenes have popped out of the computer. There is nowhere for criminals to hide. In Britain they keep all the DNA database. This mean, that innocent people also ends up on the criminal database. The risk of beeing on the criminal list, even if you are innocent, is that you have a risk of being wrongly accused of crimes. Once there was a big chance that two people had the same DNA. But now, thanks to technological advances, there is not a big chance that two people have the same DNA. B. Oversættelse fra dansk til engelsk The following text is taken from Jyllands-Posten, 7th July 2000. By Jens Grund Whith its new DNA-register the police gradually expects to track down the perpetrators to a number of so far unsolved homicides, rapes and robberies all around in Denmark. The commission of ...