NDNAD
Definition
National DNA Database (UK); the world's first national forensic DNA database, established in 1995, operated by the National DNA Database Strategy Board. Holds profiles from convicted offenders, arrestees, and crime scenes.
- Full name
- National DNA Database
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Established
- 1995
- Distinction
- World's first national forensic DNA database
- Operated by
- National DNA Database Strategy Board
Common questions
Who gets a profile entered into NDNAD?+
Historically it included convicted offenders and, for a period, arrestees regardless of charge outcome, along with crime scene profiles; retention rules for arrestee profiles who were not convicted were later tightened following legal challenges over indefinite retention.
How does NDNAD compare in scale or age to systems like NDIS or India's proposed NDIS locus standards?+
NDNAD predates the US NDIS and most other national systems, having launched in 1995, and its long operational history is why it is often used as the reference case when other countries, including India, design retention and matching standards for their own DNA databases.
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