RE: BBC News report - DNA tests sought 'for every Briton'

["Quentin Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 08 September 2003 12:22
> To: UKCrypto mailing list
> Subject: BBC News report - DNA tests sought 'for every Briton'
> 
> 
> Every single person in the UK should be compelled to have 
> their DNA on the national database in an effort to prevent 
> crime, a senior police officer has argued.
[snip]
> But Kevin Morris, chairman of the Police Superintendents Association,
> told the Times newspaper opposition to extending the scheme to every
> man, woman and child was overstated."
 
A bit rich considering that his own rank and file are strongly resisting
random drug testing of Police officers. What has happened to their oft
heard mantra "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear";
have they suddenly realised that might be "overstated" as well?

Quentin