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If your DNA sample ‘fails’, can the Police re-arrest you to get another?

Summary by Iain Gould- Actions Against the Police Solicitor
This week’s blog post concerns a strange and concerning circumstance: a person arrested purely so that her DNA could be ‘harvested’ for the Police biometrics database – after she had previously provided a DNA sample, but the sample had subsequently ‘failed’ the Police lab test.  In August 2022, my client Alice was arrested by Nottinghamshire Police on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.  She was taken to a Police Station.  This …
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Iain Gould- Actions Against the Police Solicitor broke the news in on Monday, April 28, 2025.
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