I recently made a Freedom of Information request of North Wales Police to ascertain information in respect of how many DNA profiles of innocent people they actually hold and I received the following response:
North Wales Police are unable to supply the information requested.
Although the way the information is held makes it easily retrievable for our policing purposes it would actually require a manual search of individual records to enable us to respond to your request.
I don't accept this and I have lodged a request for the refusal decision to be reviewed and my explanation for the review was that the Police know how many people have been arrested and how their cases have been disposed, this information is held on the Police National Computer as is details of DNA taken, North Wales Police have their own Force code so it should be fairly easy to retrieve the information requested. We shall wait and see!
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Dyfed police have got my DNA and I'm totally innocent!
Write to the Chief Constable and request your profile is deleted from the DNA database and if they refuse complain to the Police Authority, then IPCC, then Home Secretary!
Hi
I am one of those people in north wales who had my dna fingerprints and pnc record deleted.
you need to follow the exceptional case produre police by writting to the chief constable and explain why it is an exception case. they will take up to six months to get you profile cleared if the chief consatable agree how ever look at the home office website to the consulation on getting the right people on the data base. iand you will see that you have to pay £200 application fee to the magistright court to make the final decision.
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