DNA Collecting Flashcards
(10 cards)
Why must we submit both suspect and crime scene DNA?
- Identify offenders early
- Prevent future crimes
When can you not obtain a sample from an offender?
- They’ve been warned
Offered a pre-charge warning - Detained under another enactment
- Arrested for an offence that is not an imprisonable offence
- Where no decision has been made yet to charge that person for the offence
- When there are no DNA kits available
What is an adult offence in relation to DNA?
Offences that relate only to any adults and are imprisonable offences and peeping and peering.
What is a relevant offence?
Offences related only to young persons over 14 years but under 17 years and are offences listed in the Schedule of Offences in the Criminal Investigation (Bodily Samples) Act 1995.
Where can you locate a DNA profile if it exists?
National Intelligence Application (NIA)
Other than the offender not having a DNA profile listed, when is a DNA sample required to be taken?
- The person has no DNA profile
- Their DNA sample was obtained before 2000
- Their DNA sample was destroyed
Where are the two programme pathways that can be used to produce DNA documentation?
- Under Forms in the heading bar in NIA when querying an offender that is to be charged
- Under Microsoft Word > Police Forms (A-H) > DNA when summonsing or preparing to interview with the possible intention of summoning
What are the five forms required for an Intention to Charge sample?
- POL800 (Informing the donor of the request to provide a bodily sample
- POL80 (Rights of the donor)
- POL801 (BioTrak DNA Sample Data Entry Sheet
- POL805 (DNA Assistance Sheet
- POL730 (Ethnicity Form - located in DNA pack)
The barcode on the DNA buccal Sample Kit must match two items in the kit. What are these items?
- FTA collection card
* POL730 Ethnicity questionnaire
Who manages the kit once completed and delivered to them?
Local DNA support staff
