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DNA clampdown?

Calls are growing for tighter restrictions on when and how local police forces can take genetic samples following arrests, after confirmation that the national DNA database now contains details of five million people, including one million who are ‘i

Calls are growing for tighter restrictions on when and how local police forces can take genetic samples following arrests, after confirmation that the national DNA database now contains details of five million people, including one million who are ‘innocent'.

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