No2ID says Home Office

The Exeter branch of No2ID got in touch about the Home Office’s announcement that it has dropped its proposal to retain the DNA profiles of innocent people for six and 12 years.

In practice, they say, this leaves nearly a million people unlawfully on the National DNA Database with little prospect of having their DNA removed.

Meanwhile, innocent people’s DNA continues to be added to the database and ACPO’s advice to chief constables means that the European Court of Human Rights ruling of December 2008 will be ignored until the government has done something about it.

Phil Booth, NO2ID’s National Coordinator, told the PRSD: “The brass neck of the Home Office is quite staggering. Having postponed any action for 10 months already through a sham consultation based on dodgy evidence and even more dodgy reasoning, it now suggests that doing nothing for at least another six months is ‘expeditiously complying with the ruling’ against it.”

For more details of Exeter’s No2ID, contact Sam Morris at exeter@no2id.net