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              | Date: 2000-12-13 
 
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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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 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.
 
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 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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