Posted on 12/11/2006 9:29:15 PM PST by ellery
BRITAIN’S most senior murder investigator has called for DNA to be taken from babies.
Commander Dave Johnston said it would build up a database to solve crimes and prevent others.
He said samples could also be taken from Britons renewing passports and from migrants arriving here. The head of the Met Police’s Homicide and Serious Crime Unit, went on: “We have 300,000 unsolved cases where we have taken a profile at a crime scene but have not yet matched it.
“As well as solving crime, it would really make someone think twice about committing crime if they knew their DNA was on a database.
“There is also a compelling case for taking DNA from people when they die, so that we can cleanse the database.”
There are already three million profiles — covering six per cent of the population — on the National DNA Database, set up in 1999.
Currently saliva samples are taken only from those arrested and cost £47 to put on the database.
Yet “heel prick” blood samples are already taken from babies at four days old to test for genetic diseases and could be used at little extra cost.
Cdr Johnston — Vice Chair of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ homicide working group — stressed his was a personal view. He added: “There are a lot of issues around this, including human rights issues. That’s the debate I want.”
Britain, the birthplace of our common law, is being asked to part with many of the civil liberties for the sake of security.
Disgusting.
Thanks for the ping, F15 Eagle.
What the heck IS in the water over there???
Right righteous prick is a disgrace to England's history, and deserves to be called out on it and exiled from public service.
Worse yet, if one was even to accept his totalitarian invective as a basis for a discussion, he should be further excoriated for choosing the defenseless to prey upon, while he doesn't even attempt to mention that all migrants to the UK should have DNA samples taken.
This man is demanding that the citizenry of the UK have more rights taken away than the foreign born immigrant class, in direct opposition to the reality that the immigrant population is well over represented within the judicial and penal system.
Any of this disgrace's superiors who are in their right mind would immediately cease all of his public comments, throw him behind a desk and destroy his career. I doubt such a man or woman exists within a LE agency that allows such a vile thug the ability to comment to the media in such a disgusting manner.
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