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How much information does the State need to have about me that I have not freely volunteered? I’d say it already knows a lot more than it needs to. But then so does Tesco.
I have been photographed, fingerprinted and asked all sorts of odd questions without ever having been arrested – though it’s come close.
I have been CRB-checked by my child’s school. My blood was routinely tested for HIV and rubella when I was pregnant. The one little bit of me that they don’t have is my DNA. But surely it’s only a matter of time.
Why should I, an innocent citizen, object to the State having my precious DNA on its database? What have I to fear? Am I ‘against justice’, as Harriet Harman ludicrously accused anyone with doubts about a centralised DNA database of being?
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If the police take a DNA sample, even if one is not charged, it can be kept up to 12 years. This doesn’t happen in other countries, not even Scotland. There, DNA can be taken only if you are arrested.
If you are cleared, the profile is immediately destroyed unless you have been cleared of a violent or sexual offence – in which case the sample can be kept for up to five years. What Harman is arguing for already contravenes EU legislation and we will simply end up with more test cases in the European courts.
