Home Department written question – answered on 3rd March 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many samples have been added to the DNA database in each police authority area in the last five years; and how many of those samples were for people who were not subsequently convicted of a criminal offence.
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DNA samples are not in themselves added to the National DNA Database (NDNAD), they are analysed and converted into a DNA profile which is then added to the NDNAD. The following table shows the number of subject DNA profiles held on the NDNAD by each of the police forces in England and Wales as at
These data are based on a snapshot of the NDNAD as at
The most recent figures available for England and Wales show that at
Breakdown of the subject sample profiles on the NDNAD by police force from the creation of the NDNAD to 31 December 2010 | |
Police force | Number of subject profiles on NDNAD |
Avon and Somerset | 137,560 |
Bedfordshire | 61,817 |
British Transport police | 60,843 |
Cambridgeshire | 69,167 |
Cheshire | 100,456 |
City of London | 27,618 |
Cleveland | 66,113 |
Cumbria | 57,868 |
Derbyshire | 108,978 |
Devon and Cornwall | 140,042 |
Dorset | 63,395 |
Durham | 64,465 |
Dyfed-Powys | 60,483 |
Essex | 163,285 |
Gloucestershire | 58,265 |
Greater Manchester police | 309,393 |
Gwent | 65,363 |
Hampshire | 183,722 |
Hertfordshire | 95,108 |
Humberside | 103,277 |
Kent | 176,460 |
Lancashire | 183,196 |
Leicestershire | 83,343 |
Lincolnshire | 63,120 |
Merseyside | 197,553 |
Metropolitan police | 1,041,896 |
Norfolk | 79,540 |
Northamptonshire | 56,917 |
Northumbria | 205,177 |
North Wales | 73,799 |
North Yorkshire | 71,235 |
Nottinghamshire | 127,994 |
South Wales | 144,039 |
South Yorkshire | 146,952 |
Staffordshire | 129,833 |
Suffolk | 61,555 |
Surrey | 75,388 |
Sussex | 141,431 |
Thames Valley | 196,665 |
Warwickshire | 41,100 |
West Mercia | 96,779 |
West Midlands | 354,847 |
West Yorkshire | 263,862 |
Wiltshire | 64,534 |
Total | 6,074,433 |
Note: The figures provided are for the number of subject profiles retained; this is not the same as the number of people retained. |
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