UK police want DNA samples from all arrests
BBC reports on plans by UK police to take DNA samples from anyone they arrest, charged or otherwise.
Under current rules, police can only take DNA samples from people
once they have been charged with an offence. Ministers argue that extending the current database will ensure suspects on the wanted list cannot pretend to be somebody else if
they are arrested. The change is being added to the Criminal Justice Bill but has raised concerns from opposition MPs.[...]
More than 1.5 million DNA profiles are held on the national database and the government wants to increase that number to three million by April 2004. – BBC, Police DNA powers ‘to be extended’.