State police will destroy electronic data containing the profile of a former Provincetown man’s DNA that was collected during a highly publicized murder investigation, according to a settlement reached in Suffolk Superior Court. Keith Amat... Read more
GOVERNMENT is moving towards creating a proper deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) database with law enforcement officers first in line and mandated under law to provide tissue samples as the State seeks to establish new ways and means to have a proper... Read more
: In a bid to adopt technology-based policing, Nepal Police today launched Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test system. The government of Denmark has provided advanced a DNA testing device, 60 new crime investigating tools, 35 cameras, six compute... Read more
A woman’s body is found in London. DNA turns up a hit, yet the suspect apparently died weeks before the alleged victim. Here, forensic scientist Dr Mike Silverman tells the story of one of the strangest cases of his career. It was a... Read more
The MTA is about to get a little more CSI. City bus drivers will soon be armed with DNA swabs to gather evidence in the all-too-common event of an unhinged passenger spitting on them. Transit workers catch a loogie 14 times a month, the MTA esti... Read more
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission designate (IHREC designate) today published the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC’s) observations on the Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013 (2013 Bill). T... Read more
A Government proposal which would allow the taking of DNA samples for “mass screening” of certain “classes”of individuals should be prohibited, the national human rights watchdog has said. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) d... Read more
French authorities are testing the DNA of 527 students in a high school rape case. Don’t expect the same thing to happen in the U.S. any time soon French police are demanding DNA samples from 527 male students and staf... Read more
An Anne Arundel County man who was found guilty of a burglary based in part on DNA evidence asked a state appellate court Thursday to throw out his conviction, arguing that police improperly kept his genetic information in the database they used... Read more
National security minister Peter Bunting has given the clearest indication yet that the long-promised DNA bill may not be enacted anytime soon and may not be operationalised this legislative year. The minister was speaking during Tuesday... Read more