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UK Rejects Mandatory DNA Database

Calls to put the DNA of every UK resident on a national database are impractical, the government has said. A senior police officer has argued for a universal register, after two killers were convicted on DNA evidence. But the Home Office said a mandatory database "would raise significant practical and ethical issues."

Mandatory DNA database rejected, BBC News, February 23, 2008.