Government drops DNA proposals

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Plan to keep innocent people on DNA database for 6 to 12 years dropped to push Bill through Lords

The Policing and Crime Bill faced opposition in the House of Lords The Home Office yesterday announced that it would drop a plan to keep the DNA profiles of those arrested but not convicted of a ...

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