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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to legislate and or direct the Home Secretary to order the unrecoverable destruction of innocent peoples DNA, fingerprints,photograph and other personal data held on the Police National Computer and the National DNA Database. More details
Submitted by C Buckley – Deadline to sign up by: 21 November 2007 – Signatures: 186
More details from petition creator
Keeping innocent people's DNA profiles on a Database permanently is an infringement of fundamental human rights.
There was little discussion in Parliament prior to a vote on the law that allows the Police the discresion to permanently retain DNA.
Keeping innocent people permanently on the database has not noticeably increased the likelihood of a crime being successfully detected.
Permanent retention of your record might lead to you being unfairly refused a job or visa in the future, or that it will be used to undermine your privacy, for example by investigating who you are related to.
The database is being used for research purposes. It is wrong to remove your right to refuse to take part in controversial research.
Keeping DNA samples, which contain unlimited genetic information, is not necessary and only benefits the companies paid to store them. The Human Genetics Commission, which advises the Government on these issues, has said that the samples should be destroyed once the DNA profiles (the string of numbers used for identification purposes) have been obtained from them.
In Scotland the law is different DNA cannot be kept permanently from innocent people.
Current signatories
C Buckley, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Sarah Pantry
- Kevin Wells
- Steve Webb
- Philip Glover
- Ernie Couchman
- mairi mackechnie
- Saul Marchant
- Craig Healey, English Democrats
- Karen Francis
- John Duck
- David Hicks
- Anthony Snell
- Annette Jones
- Keith John Shaw
- John Annan
- Jan Clarke
- David Cooper
- Dick King
- S King
- David A. Pollard
- Rose Humphrey
- laj bletchly
- Dinah Greek
- Jesse Marks
- Jan Bucknall
- mr j sidell
- Garry Stockdill
- Rob Anastasi
- Maureen Rowcliffe-Quarry
- Garth Siner
- Norma Maxwell
- John Springett
- James A Dowson
- Douglas Bowles
- callum chomczuk
- D.C.Thomas
- Aidan Baker
- Frederick Jones
- Gordon Vernon
- Evelyn Cockerell
- Kenneth Dabbs
- Mr JC Watton
- Kerry King
- Dr. John Davies
- MARTIN JONES
- Reg Saunders
- Dulani Kulasinghe
- Andrew Evans
- Emmanuel
- Derek Prescott
- C.NEDRICK
- andrew millington
- Ian Johnson
- J Lyons
- Patrick Coleman
- Trevor Northfield
- David R Cowie
- Russell Turner
- Nicholas Garrott
- Dale Hirst
- Peter Moseley
- Mark James Moseley
- Clair Neal
- Ian Gurnhill
- WA Johnston
- C Johnston
- Ian Humphrey
- Steven Dix
- robert pratten
- Robert Reardon
- Gordan Bobic
- Neil Parkinson
- Maureen Watson
- Adrienne Taylor
- Alan Cupit
- David Mery
- Martin Deane
- Edward King
- Ronald McGeary
- John Andrews
- Susan Forbes
- Madeline Jan
- Richard Heath-Tilford
- J Irvine
- Adam White
- Robert Nock
- Peter Riches BSc (Hons) MBA
- s cleverly
- Gary Williams
- Sophie W
- Chris Hayes
- Harry Wright
- Karen Duncan
- Robert Coe
- D Johnson
- Adrian Jenkins
- Chloe Cresswell
- Victoria Abbott
- Lynnette Dias
- Chris Roberts
- Nicholas Gregory
- Nicolas Brough
- Hugh de Lacy
- Dr Graeme Stirk
- Declan Larkin
- Eric Jayat
- Chris Mackenzie-Thorpe
- David Smith
- Ms Browne
- Matthew Bland
- martin kendrick
- Rhodri Lewis
- Annabel Murphy
- P.Coney
- Peter Hargreaves
- Peter Vick
- D Flint-Johnson
- Paul Gulliver
- Daniel Losinski
- Hope
- Bob Richmond
- Brian Anderson
- David Cox
- Ian Cosnett
- Jeremy Slawson
- Stuart Palfreyman
- Jamie MacDonald
- Luca Belletti
- Ian Orlebar
- Frank Kingswood
- Gavin Westwood
- Carole Orlebar
- B. Bennett
- Lee Reid
- Robert Watkins
- Maria Joannou
- Justin Greenhalgh
- Lynne McGuckin
- Rob Britton
- Peter Twells
- Ben Britton
- Jerry Newman
- Dave Butters
- karamjit Singh
- Andrew Lowe
- Mark Cosgrove
- Chris Tuffley
- George Violetti
- Pam Gibbs
- Duncan Grant
- MJ Rounding
- Jai Dade
- Leah Ungless
- k mackay
- Adam Suleman
- Angela Kirkland
- Ailbhe Fallon
- Naomi Fowler
- Yvonne Fowler
- Linda Hull
- Theresa Williams
- R hawkins
- henry collier
- susan hall
- michele miskelly
- luke miskelly
- Richard Walters
- Jack Miskelly
- Adrian Gale
- laura miskelly
- C Buckley
- R Hardman
- Malcolm Lear
- Jonathan Maltman
- Paul Bartlett
- Jake Kaneen
- Harry Monk
- Graham Lester
- Calum Johnstone
- Paul Meakin
- v. lawton
- Stuart Leather
- Chiara Realini
- John Moodie
- Simon Barnaby
