European DNA ruling offers 'wriggle room'

Chris Sims said the Government and the police service have many options about how to proceed following the European Court of Human Rights ruling which found keeping some DNA and fingerprint records was a 'disproportionate interference' into people's private lives.

Mr Sims said this week that there was unlikely to be a change in the law until around March. He added that, even then, the change to current policy would not be as dramatic as some have claimed.

Mr Sims told Police Review: 'The ruling does not mean everything changes; it only requires that the Government responds. It is not as simple as wiping 20 per cent of the records off the database.' 113 of 455 words