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What do you think of the Bichard step model?
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/Marcus-Lasance?id=15
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LASANCE
21 months, 1 day, 8 hours agoDo you think it's right, that the Police seem to be able to continue to hold Fingerprints and DNA samples of people who are acquitted in a public court of Law [ or who’s cases never make it there] and hold them in the same data base alongside data of convicted child molesters, rapists and murderers?
#1 - By LASANCE, 21 months, 1 day, 4 hours ago.
Did you know that the Chief Constable in every Police Force in the UK as the 'official' data controller of that force has the power in exceptional circumstances to order the removal of DNA from the National Crime Data base and associated PNC records? The home office is so concerned about them getting inundated with floods of these requests, that they provided the Police with a standard 'brush off letter'
Read appendix 2 af the following Police Guidelines for further info #2 - By LASANCE, 20 months, 1 week, 5 days, 11 hours ago.
The BBC reported an ineresting new development today
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7266130.stm Two British men are due to appear before Strasbourg's European Court of Human Rights to try to get their DNA removed from the UK national database. Both were arrested and DNA samples were lawfully taken. But the men were later cleared and have no criminal record. Their lawyers will say that keeping the information infringes their right to privacy and anti-discrimination laws. If the case is successful, tens of thousands of similar DNA records would have to be destroyed. #3 - By LASANCE, 16 months, 4 days, 6 hours ago.
The Police are 'shitting themselves' in case they loose their favourite toy of the month, a DNA data base that makes old fashined Policing no longer necessary: They chose retiring Chief Constable Tony Lake to test out the public's anger. The serving ones are probably too chicken to take a stand. I know because I asked my own Chief Constable Simon Ash, but he hides behind what passes for his 'quality department' in Ipswich....
Read the full story in the Times! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4083267.ece?Submitted=true |
