DNA - Now you don't even need to be a criminal to have your dna taken.

From the tree hugging Guardian.

The Home Office is considering giving the police the power to take a DNA sample on the street, without taking the suspect to a police station, as well as taking samples from suspects in relatively minor offences such as littering, speeding or not wearing a seat belt.

**Considering is it? Considering the matter my arse. We all know that this has been thought up by some small minded cock in either the Home Office or government. The plan is quite simple they want everyones dna on the national database. They will of course wheel out some story about how they will be able to catch more criminals, always a good one that, the security card. Quite why they need a dna sample from some poor person who did not wear a seat belt I do not know? Hardly qualifies them as a major villain in anyone book.

The move comes as an official genetics watchdog prepares a public inquiry into the police national DNA database, following concern over the retention of samples from people acquitted of any offence, and disclosure that the database holds DNA records for one in three of British black males. The database is the largest in the world, with 3.4m profiles, more than 5% of the UK population. If the powers are granted, it would expand massively.

**So they have 5% of the population on there nice database, but this is not enough. Oh no. Just 5% a mere drop in the ocean, they will of course push through further measures to expand on this.

Baroness Kennedy, chair of the Human Genetics Commission, said the power of the police in England and Wales to take DNA samples from any arrested individual without requiring their assent was unrivalled in the world. "We want to ensure the public voice is heard on issues people think are relevant. The Citizen's Inquiry is likely to grapple with issues such as whether storing the DNA profiles of victims and suspects who are not charged, or who are subsequently acquitted of any wrongdoing, is justified by the need to fight crime."

**What ever happened to freedom in this nation? Or the idea that you were innocent until proven guilty by a jury of your peers? The very idea that victims of crime should have their dna held, just in case is wrong plain and simple.

She added that under law it was very difficult, and sometimes impossible, to have your sample removed. "On the other hand a steadily increasing number of serious crimes, including murder and rapes, are being solved and criminals brought to justice with its help. It is likely that the use of DNA information by police authorities for criminal intelligence purposes will grow. It is therefore vital that the public are able to voice their views."

The inquiry will recruit representative panels of the public to consider social and ethical issues in police use of DNA.

The initiative comes as the Home Office finishes consulting on police powers to extend use of the DNA database, with a view to legislation this autumn. The results show wide support from the police to take DNA, fingerprints and footwear impressions on the street to confirm identity and check against the national database, and support to lower the threshold to take in suspects in minor offences. A Home Office paper summarising the consultation said respondents "welcomed the ability to reduce the threshold, including to the extent of allowing for the taking of fingerprints, DNA and footwear impressions for non-recordable offenses for the purpose of offender identification and searching databases".

It adds: "The second issue relates to the taking of fingerprints, photographs and samples on the street. This was welcomed at an operational level as a means of increasing officer confidence in knowing who they are dealing with and enabling them to deal more effectively with the incident at the scene."

**Once this comes in we can kiss freedom, or rather what is left of it goodbye. People will have their dna taken for the most trivial of reasons and of course should they refuse then they will be arrested for refusal and then the police have the right to take their dna as they are now a criminal. Catch 22.

Next step after that is registering everyone onto the database, oh and maybe some system where samples are taken as soon as children are born. Got to catch them criminals young. Oh and lets not forget those planned ID cards, that the worthless nodding donkeys in Parliament voted for.

Minor correction re above - I referred to our MP's as nodding donkeys, I apologise for that as donkeys at least have some charm, personality and look a lot cuter than the worthless amoral shits that pass themselves off as MP's here in the UK.

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