Two English men have successfully challenged South Yorkshire Police’s decision to retain their DNA samples even though neither of them have been convicted of a crime. The Police have amassed the world’s largest database of DNA samples, a sizeable proportion of which were retained illegally before the law was changed to allow them to keep DNA

The identities of more than two million criminals are not on the national DNA database.

There are a “substantial number” of criminals - serious offenders, who have been convicted of murder, rape etc - whose DNA is not on the DNA database. Erm, why? This database is meant to exist to enable the police to catch those who have committed crimes, and surely those who have been convicted of crimes

Commenting on today’s report by the Ethics Group on the DNA database, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "The Ethics Group has rightly highlighted how deeply unethical parts of the DNA database are."It is totally unacceptable that innocent people who have given their DNA in good faith to assist with a police investigation are being treated like criminals and added to t...

Now that the ECHR has found the retention of S. and Marper's DNA breaches human rights law, it should be much easier for innocents who have had their DNA taken by the police to get their DNA samples and profile destroyed.

The Police are asking people to provide a DNA sample in order to rule them out of an investigation into a rape and murder case. I would be surprised if many people would be willing to give their DNA to the police, despite the seriousness of the crime. Simply because of the DNA database and the

Ahead of today’s European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether two innocent men should be removed from the DNA database, the Liberal Democrats have revealed that 40% of Britain’s criminals escape inclusion on the database.

Senior police officers have dismissed a report blaming officers' tactics for the summer riots saying it amounted to criminals making excuses for their actions.

The DNA records of innocent people should be deleted from the national database because the practice is illegal and morally wrong, the Conservative party said yesterday. The shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, writing on guardian.co.uk, said that allowing the government to store the DNA data of anyone questioned by the police "represents an unacceptable extension of the power of the state at a ...

Four months have passed since the European court of human rights landed a unanimous and unusually pointed judgment damning the "blanket and indiscriminate" DNA database in England and Wales, which keeps genetic tabs not just on criminals but on anyone falling under police suspicion. Save for a vague promise to consult on possible changes in several months' time, ministers have said almost not...