New South Wales police are collecting DNA samples from thousands of criminals with spent convictions to help solve cold cases and future crimes. Police are planning to take a further 2,000 s... Read more
A huge increase in DNA sampling may leave the depleted police forensics department scrambling to keep up when changes to the Crimes Act are enforced from July 1. Under the changes, police wi... Read more
The main ethical hurdle to establishing a universal forensic DNA database is cost, not civil liberties, Canterbury University ethicist Dr Carolyn Mason says. Addressing the New Zealand Bioet... Read more
A district court judge who is a world expert in forensic DNA has called for a public debate on the use of familial DNA testing, as police reveal they have now used the “last resort... Read more