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CPS 'failed to run DNA checks'
CPS 'failed to run DNA checks'
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2008
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PA News
The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted that it failed to run checks on 2,000 foreign crime suspects for more than a year after it was sent their DNA profiles by an overseas police force.
Dutch police sent the CPS DNA details of 2,000 people wanted in connection with crimes including murder and rape.
But, according to reports, the service only started running checks this month and found 11 of the suspects had committed crimes in Britain in the past 12 months.
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