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Police retain DNA of 'petty crime suspects'
Ben Leapman
Londdon Telegraph
Sunday November 4, 2007
Suspects accused of trivial "crimes" such as picking wild flowers or defacing coins can have their DNA stored for life on a national database, police guidelines reveal.
A report by police chiefs lists more than 5,000 offences that qualify for lifelong inclusion on the database. Anyone arrested for any of the crimes will have his or her DNA taken and stored, even if charges are later dropped or the suspect is acquitted in court.
The offences show up in employment-vetting checks for years after the event. Campaigners called the guidelines a step on the road to a "surveillance society" and said the inclusion of petty offences was accelerating the growth of the database, which already holds details on four million people.
The 210-page list of crimes, drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), includes such minor offences as "opening an incorrectly delivered packet", an offence under the 2000 Postal Services Act; "wantonly disturbing any inhabitant by any ringing doorbell", an offence under the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act, and picking wild flowers for sale, an offence under the 1968 Theft Act.
Police have categorised the crimes into three grades of severity. If an adult is convicted of a crime in the least-serious category, group C, it will show up in employment checks for the next 10 years. If the offender admits guilt and accepts a police caution, it will show up for five years. After that period, the only potential employers who will see it are those conducting "enhanced checks" on job-seekers applying to work with children.
It also remains visible to detectives during crime investigations until the individual's 100th birthday, when the record is finally deleted.
All the crimes on the list are classed as "recordable offences", in most cases because they can lead to prison.
A row broke out earlier this year after ministers proposed that the database – already the world's biggest – should be extended to include those accused of "non-recordable" offences, which include speeding and dropping litter.
Dr Helen Wallace, of the pressure group Genewatch, said the ACPO list illustrated the "unnecessary" expansion of the database which, she said, "allows the Government to restrict rights on the basis of arrest, rather than of being convicted".
The records are kept for life so that they can be matched to DNA samples. Even suspects who turn out to have been wrongfully arrested normally stay on the database.
Nationwide, one in 15 people are included on it. Police say that keeping the details of those who have never been convicted of an offence has helped to solve serious crimes including rapes and murders.
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Police retain DNA of 'petty crime suspects'
Ben Leapman
Londdon Telegraph
Sunday November 4, 2007
Suspects accused of trivial "crimes" such as picking wild flowers or defacing coins can have their DNA stored for life on a national database, police guidelines reveal.
A report by police chiefs lists more than 5,000 offences that qualify for lifelong inclusion on the database. Anyone arrested for any of the crimes will have his or her DNA taken and stored, even if charges are later dropped or the suspect is acquitted in court.
The offences show up in employment-vetting checks for years after the event. Campaigners called the guidelines a step on the road to a "surveillance society" and said the inclusion of petty offences was accelerating the growth of the database, which already holds details on four million people.
The 210-page list of crimes, drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), includes such minor offences as "opening an incorrectly delivered packet", an offence under the 2000 Postal Services Act; "wantonly disturbing any inhabitant by any ringing doorbell", an offence under the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act, and picking wild flowers for sale, an offence under the 1968 Theft Act.
Police have categorised the crimes into three grades of severity. If an adult is convicted of a crime in the least-serious category, group C, it will show up in employment checks for the next 10 years. If the offender admits guilt and accepts a police caution, it will show up for five years. After that period, the only potential employers who will see it are those conducting "enhanced checks" on job-seekers applying to work with children.
It also remains visible to detectives during crime investigations until the individual's 100th birthday, when the record is finally deleted.
All the crimes on the list are classed as "recordable offences", in most cases because they can lead to prison.
A row broke out earlier this year after ministers proposed that the database – already the world's biggest – should be extended to include those accused of "non-recordable" offences, which include speeding and dropping litter.
Dr Helen Wallace, of the pressure group Genewatch, said the ACPO list illustrated the "unnecessary" expansion of the database which, she said, "allows the Government to restrict rights on the basis of arrest, rather than of being convicted".
The records are kept for life so that they can be matched to DNA samples. Even suspects who turn out to have been wrongfully arrested normally stay on the database.
Nationwide, one in 15 people are included on it. Police say that keeping the details of those who have never been convicted of an offence has helped to solve serious crimes including rapes and murders.
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