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More meaningless propaganda from the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA),
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1076143/Record-72...
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13 months, 3 days, 10 hours agoToday on BBC Radio Four news there was an item that last year a record 720,000 people were added to Britain's DNA database - making it world's largest. The item said also that 4,400 DNA matches were made with DNA retrieved from crime scenes( the figure stood at a reported 3000 last year). Watch the power of propaganda at work: This has about the same informational value as reporting that the amount of fly tipping increased by 1500 tonnes or every tree in the UK as developed another year ring under its bark. Its just business as usual, natural growth in meaningless numbers when people are paid to perform meaningless tasks.
What is more relevant is the clear-up rate which is still below 50% and this probably has something to do with the fact that according to the same report the number of samples taken from crime scenes dropped by 20 per cent in the same period!
Here we have it. The Police are wasting their time building up their data base at the detriment of solving actual crimes. For this database to be useful a child can see that the Police actually has to increase the number of forensic investigations on crime scenes proportionally and they should stop reporting DNA matched with victims, carers, neighbours and other non criminals as soving crime. It just eliminetes innocent people from flawed Police enquiries. The number of actual arrests when they match a criminal's DNA with DNA found at a crime scene is not reported by the National Policing Improvement Agency, but according to figures estimated by GeneWatch is nothing to brag about.
Note the power of propaganda. The European Court of Justice is widely expected to rule that samples obtained during police investigations should be destroyed at the end of an inquiry rather than loaded on to the NDNAD because it is in breach of Data Protection and Human Rights legislation. The government spin doctors are just feeding this type of mis information to prepare the way for finding a way out not having to destroy all these samples.
What do you make of all this propaganda? Are they softening up the public?
Tags: NDNAD,Privacy,DNA Database,Innocent
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