Police collect their officers' DNA to ensure they do not contaminate crime scenes The Metropolitan Police is still missing nearly half of its officers' DNA from its database, and more than a fifth of ...

People don’t think much about private databases, but they’ve transformed almost every aspect of our lives. Private databases ...

Elimination databases are used to exclude police officers’ DNA or fingerprints from crime scene samples, helping to prevent contamination from being mistaken for a suspect’s profile. However, the ...

Police Scotland has been warned it is not recording DNA ethnicity data correctly amid a row around allegations of ...