Chewing-gum droppers face DNA swabs
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The Daily Mail finally cottons on to the government’s plans to take DNA from people for non-recordable offences, like littering, speeding and driving the wrong way up a one-way street.
Here at Home Office Watch, we spotted this months ago (OK, so we forgot to mention DNA, focusing instead on the fingerprinting powers, but no-one’s perfect).
Fact is, whenever you noticed it, these are dramatic proposals. A DNA sample is already added to the database every minute; add in the minor motoring offenders, litter louts and fare evaders and we could have half the population on there.
