- Mr President, there are 4.3 million individuals whose DNA is on the UK national DNA database and available to police. That is 7% of the UK population – at least five times higher, as a proportion, than in any other country. That figu
re includes 150 000 children under the age of 16, of whom 25 000 have never been charged with an offence. Britain’s most senior police f
orensics expert has even suggested that children as young as five should go on the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they might be potential criminals in
...[+++] later life.