DNA profile database plans unveiled
Updated on 11 November 2009
Plans for how long the DNA profiles of innocent people will be kept on the national database for England and Wales are being unveiled.
The Home Office will signal a retreat on adults arrested but cleared, who will all have their DNA profiles removed from the database after six years.
Only months ago the Home Office proposed holding the records of violent and sexual offenders for up to 12 years.
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