DNA database

12.02.00am GMT Wed 3rd Dec 2008

Dear Mr Khalid Mahmood MP,

As you maybe aware official figures recently showed that, since it was created the profiles of over one million children have been added to the DNA database. This is nearly a quarter of the 4.4million profiles on the database.

A breakdown of the figures showed that the profiles of more a hundred thousand children had their DNA taken when they were under thirteen years old and the profiles of more than half a million children were added to the database when they were aged between thirteen and fifteen.

In the past three years more then forty eight thousand children under thirteen and over two hundred thousand children aged between thirteen and fifteen were added to the DNA database.

The DNA database treats hundred of thousands of young people as suspects for life. Their DNA could be used to track them or their relatives or to reveal private genetic information.

I hope that you will lobby the government to change the law so that the DNA of innocent young people (those who are either not charged or who are later acquitted) is removed from the national DNA database.

Yours sincerely,

Adam Nazir Ahmed Teladia