James Slack writes in the Daily Mail:
TV crime shows may have created the myth that DNA can solve almost every grisly crime – but the reality is very different.
As few as one in every 1,300 crimes reported to the police is solved by the national DNA database, according to a report released by MPs yesterday.
The [...]

Peter Hoskin, writing in the Spectator Coffee House blog, comments on a speech by Gordon Brown:
Paul Waugh has already blogged on what may turn out to be the most significant passage of Brown’s speech – at least so far as the cut ‘n’ thrust of the election campaign is concerned. In it, Brown highlights [...]

Jason Lewis writes in the Mail on Sunday:
New concerns have been raised about the use of innocent people’s DNA in police investigations.
Figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday show that detectives are ordering weekly searches of the DNA database for people with no immediate connection to any crime.
The searches are used when crime scene DNA [...]

Tom Whitehead writes in The Daily Telegraph:
David Hanson, the policing minister, has been criticised for repeating a case study to MPs as part of a series of examples of why retention of DNA samples of innocent people helps solve crimes.
Proposals in the Crime and Security Bill, currently going through parliament, would see the profiles of [...]

Ian Dunt writes on the Politics.co.uk web site about the ACPO evidence on the DNA database to the Home Affairs committee:
But Abbott’s points on statistics seemed to be vindicated when Acpo crept up to the witness chair. There are 4.9 million crimes in the UK every year, Sims informed MPs, 33,000 of which are solved [...]