Monday March 08, 2010
DNA database matches help solve 'one crime in 1,300'
Jack Doyle
Press Association
DNA matches from the national database help solve as few as one crime in every 1,300, it was claimed today.
Figures published in a Home Affairs Select Committee report suggest just 3,666 crimes are detected every year with links to an existing DNA profile.
That is one in every 1,300 of the 4.9 million crimes carried out, and just one in 350 of the 1.3 million crimes solved by police.
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