The General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) kept a DNA database that is not permitted by law, according to a report by the Supervisory Committee on the Intelligence and Security Se... Read more
The State’s forensic science agency is in “crisis” in terms of its staffing and facilities, the head of the body has told an Oireachtas committee. Director of Forensic Science Ireland, Dr Sh... Read more
The San Francisco police crime-lab technician and a supervisor implicated in alleged misconduct that could jeopardize hundreds of criminal cases failed a DNA proficiency exam last year and w... Read more
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will transfer the DNA testing software to the Vietnamese police under an agreement signed in Washington on Monday. The signing was witnessed by F... Read more
Dutch DNA database makes 25,000th criminal hit Posted on Feb 26, 2015 by Janene Van Jaarsveldt The Netherlands’ DNA database made its 25,000th match last night. It involved a match between e... Read more
Every dystopian sci-fi film we’ve ever seen is suddenly converging into this present moment in a dangerous trifecta between science, technology and a government that wants to be all-seeing,... Read more
There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going. Nonetheless, the police in Co... Read more
More than 160 000 prisoners in South Africa will soon have their DNA samples collected and stored indefinitely in a database as part of the South African Police Service’s efforts to reduce c... Read more
Anybody who has watched a crime drama knows the trick. The cops need someone’s DNA, but they don’t have a warrant, so they invite the suspect to the station house, knowing some of the perp’s... Read more
Detectives in the UK are expecting thousands of men to take part in mass DNA screening in the hope of solving the murder of grandmother Valerie Graves. Men aged 17 and over began attending t... Read more