DutchNews.nl,
Thursday 31 July 2014
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A ‘mass
exchange’ of DNA profiles between the Netherlands and Belgium may have helped
solve hundreds of crimes, Belgian media report on Thursday.
In total,
1,745 matches were found when crime scene DNA held in data banks in the two
countries was compared. In 576 cases, DNA found at a crime scene in one country
could be linked to someone who had been forced to give a sample in the other.
‘We do not
know the person whose DNA was found at the site is the perpetrator, but it does
give detectives new routes to follow and possible suspects,’ Jan De Kinder of
the Belgian national criminology institute is quoted as saying by Het Laaste Nieuws.
Belgium
will also soon make DNA exchanges with German and French DNA banks.
Since 2005,
everyone convicted of a crime punishable by four years or more in jail in the
Netherlands must give a dna sample. This is kept on the data base for 20
years.
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