Police plea to share DNA with EU due to number of foreign criminals

Senior British officers want the Home Secretary to join EU-wide scheme Would give police open access to forensic files and DNA databases Police say it is needed because we have so many foreign criminals Last week Romanian burglar was jailed thanks to data from his homeland

By Martin Beckford

Published: 16:13 EST, 12 July 2014 | Updated: 07:34 EST, 13 July 2014

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Police say they need to share DNA databases with forces across Europe because so much crime in Britain is committed by foreign nationals.

Senior officers want the Home Secretary to join an EU-wide scheme giving open access to forensic files.

They believe it would speed up the laborious process of sending samples found at crime scenes to individual countries, so they can look for matches on their databases.

DNA match: Burglar Giani Radu poses on Facebook. Detectives had found blood at the scenes of several break-ins - but it was their Romanian counterparts who found the sample matched Radu

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Police plea to share DNA with EU due to number of foreign criminals