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FBI to help set up DNA database in Thailand

On November 27, 2012 By jeeg

The Justice Ministry is teaming up with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to develop a national DNA database to help police solve violent crimes.

DNA samples in Thailand are currently collected on a case-by-case basis, with no national database in place to store records.

Justice permanent secretary Kittipong Kittiyarak yesterday chaired the signing [...]

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FBI to help set up DNA database in Thailand

On November 26, 2012 By jeeg

The Justice Ministry is teaming up with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to develop a national DNA database to help police solve violent crimes.

DNA samples in Thailand are currently collected on a case-by-case basis, with no national database in place to store records.

Justice permanent secretary Kittipong Kittiyarak yesterday chaired the signing [...]

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Uzbekistan To Create National DNA Database

On November 26, 2012 By jeeg

Uzbekistan will create a national DNA database to help track and fight crime, a spokesperson for the country’s Legislative Chamber told RIA Novosti Friday.

 

The parliament is expected to formulate a law “on genetic registration,”

which will establish a legal basis for the collection and storage of citizens’ biological samples, by 2013.

 

The [...]

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Authorities identify woman’s skeletal remains through online DNA database

On November 20, 2012 By jeeg

Nearly 12 years after a woman’s skeletal remains were discovered in a Homestead tunnel, and three years after officials buried them in a North Strabane cemetery, authorities used an online DNA database to finally solve the mystery of the unidentified bones.

Amanda Sue Myers, 22, died sometime in 2000. Family members last saw her that [...]

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New Director For Troubled Crime Lab

On November 20, 2012 By jeeg

The state has tapped the director of the Massachusetts forensic laboratory to run Connecticut’s troubled crime lab, which has struggled under one of the country’s biggest backlogs of crime-scene cases.

Guy Vallaro’s appointment follows several key reforms at the lab, which, at its lowest point last year, lost both its accreditation and its ability to [...]

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Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) to form criminal DNA database

On November 16, 2012 By jeeg

A proposed law in Republika Srpska (RS), which stipulates the interior ministry can form a DNA database for criminals, is raising hopes the authorities will fight crime more efficiently.

Police are optimistic that the law will pass soon because they cannot always rely on using fingerprints to identify criminals and conduct investigations.

“DNA analysis solves [...]

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Paternity DNA testing ‘a human rights abuse’ in Cyprus

On November 15, 2012 By jeeg

THE MIGRATION Department is violating the human right to family life and privacy by forcing families with a foreign mother to undergo paternity testing at their expense to prove the father is a Cypriot national, according to the Ombudswoman’s Office.

Following a series of complaints made in 2011 concerning the practices of the migration department [...]

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Forensic backlog in India weighs down cases: Cops

On November 14, 2012 By jeeg

Police are pegging their hopes on forensic reports to help unravel the mystery around the death of model-actress Bidushi Dash Barde and to reinforce the probes in the Bandra rape-robbery and Worli chemical attack cases. Their hope is mingled with the fear that, as in the past, a heavy backlog at the sole state-run forensic [...]

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Supreme Court will review Md. DNA law

On November 12, 2012 By jeeg

Maryland’s DNA law, which allows police to take samples of suspects’ genetic material for possible matches to other crimes, will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court next year, the justices announced Friday.

The law, a signature crime-fighting initiative of Gov. Martin O’Malley, was ruled unconstitutional by Maryland’s highest court in April. But in July, [...]

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Supreme Court Weighing Genetic Privacy

On November 9, 2012 By jeeg

Supreme Court justices are to meet privately Friday to weigh whether they will hear a major genetic-privacy case testing whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for a serious crime.

The case has wide-ranging implications, as at least 21 states and the federal government have regulations requiring suspects to give a DNA sample [...]

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