There were 31,915 DNA-related detections in 2008-2009.
It costs the taxpayer £4.3 million to run the whole system.
The enquiry into the murder of Damilola Taylor cost the taxpayer £16 million and that of the unresolved Stephen Lawrence murder well in excess of £30 million.
Everybody should have their DNA recorded on a National Database, especially juvenile snots already known to the police for violent antisocial behaviour but not currently recorded because of their age. Some of them will undoubtedly become tomorrow’s louts and villains and be allowed to prey upon the public and commit far more crimes than they would otherwise have committed had their DNA been previously recorded.
Despite constant propaganda from the self-appointed protectors of our human rights and civil liberties that we’re all about to lose our inalienable rights and freedoms I can promise you any perceived distress or pain associated with having your DNA recorded on a database will pale into insignificance compared with the actual distress and pain you’re going to experience as a consequence of being robbed, violated and/or beaten to a messy pulp one dark night by maniacal louts, villains or perverts.
I wonder how many human rights and civil liberty activists deeply opposed to the principle of DNA recording would have reconsidered their position if they or a member of their own family had featured large amongst the 2,114,000 members of the public who were violently abused last year or were amongst the 466,000 who were wounded or the 648 who were murdered.