Home Department written question – answered at on 7 June 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what obstacles there are to the retention of biometric data on the police national computer database.
There are no obstacles to the retention of biometric data. The Police National Computer (PNC) has markers that indicate if biometric data has been taken (fingerprints or DNA) primary biometric data, in the form of fingerprints, is held on the IDENT1 (previously NAFIS) service. DNA data is held on the DNA database, managed by the Forensic Science Service.
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John Hemming MP
Posted on 9 Jun 2005 10:11 pm (Report this annotation)
So no need for an ID database then. Why not use the PNC for recording retinal scans for certain people and leave the law abiding alone.