21,000 criminal dna profiles are missing from Dutch data bank
The dna profiles of some 21,000 people convicted of serious crimes are not included in the national crime dna bank, according to research by current affairs programme Nieuwsuur. The situation has worsened considerably since 2016, when the failure to collect dna samples was last in the public eye and 10,000 people were said to be missing from the data bank. ‘People who are convicted of one crime have often offended more than once,’ law psychologist Peter van Koppen told Nieuwsuur. ‘That means that if you have their dna, you have a greater chance of solving other crimes.’ One of the reasons so many people are not included in the data bank is that they failed to show up for an appointment to have their dna taken Nevertheless, the dna bank has the details of more than 200,000 people, plus unknown samples taken at crime scenes.
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