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                Date: 2000-12-13
                 
                 
                UK: DNA-Analysen bei Fahrzeugkontrolle
                
                 
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      Wer in wenigen Jahren in UK bei Fahrzeugkontrollen  
angehalten wird, wird damit rechnen muessen seine DNA  
analysieren zu lassen, geht es nach der britischen Exekutive. 
 
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comments: rost@lo-res.org 
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Roadside DNA tests planned By David Cracknell, Deputy  
Political Editor 
 
DRIVERS or other people stopped by police could be asked  
to supply on-the-spot hair or saliva samples to identify  
whether they are wanted criminals. 
 
Government scientists have developed a hand-held DNA  
testing kit to be carried and operated by police officers during  
regular patrols. The device would be electronically linked to  
the national DNA database, which Tony Blair has hailed as  
an essential tool in the fight against crime. 
 
The Forensic Science Service will disclose to Parliament this  
week that the equipment could be ready for standard use  
within a couple of years. The testing kit, which could become  
as common as the breathalyser or police baton, will  
dramatically cut the time it takes to match DNA evidence  
from crime scenes to suspects. It will raise fresh fears  
among civil liberties campaigners who believe that the  
pendulum has swung too far in the police's direction. 
 
[...] 
 
Earlier this year, the Prime Minister announced an extra  
£109 million for the expansion of the police's DNA database  
in Birmingham to include samples from "the entire active  
criminal population" - estimated to be around three million.  
 
The police have already collected nearly a million samples  
from those convicted of an offence that carries a prison  
sentence. Senior officers are now lobbying for changes in the  
law to allow further expansion of the database to include  
innocent people who volunteer to take part in mass  
screenings. 
 
Civil liberties campaigners are opposing any extension of the  
police's authority to to collect samples. They cite an official  
report which found that thousands of samples are being  
illegally held on the database because forces are failing to  
remove the records of acquitted suspects. John Wadham,  
the director of the human rights group Liberty, said: "The law  
already allows the unjustified collection of samples and we  
know that there are at least 50,000 being illegally held at the  
FSS database. This is not the time to relax the law." 
 
Mehr 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003986439041226&rtmo=aCau54uJ&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/00/12/10/nkit10.html
                   
 
 
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edited by Harkank 
published on: 2000-12-13 
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