Police
have secretly been told to continue with the unlawful ‘Big Brother’
policy of indefinitely storing DNA samples taken from entirely innocent
people.It
is more than seven months since European judges ruled that DNA taken
from 850,000 people who were not convicted of any crime could not be
stored for life.But
a leaked letter by one of the country’s most senior policing officials
reveals that forces have been warned against starting to destroy the
unlawful samples.
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