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Blunkett plans EU criminal database

London Telegraph | July 4 2004

A European Union criminal database to store DNA and fingerprint records from hundreds of thousands of suspects will be proposed by the Government this week.

David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, will present the plan as a potent weapon against terrorism and organised crime when he chairs a meeting of European Union home affairs ministers in Sheffield. He envisages a central database, probably controlled by Europol but accessible by national police forces.

Mr Blunkett said: "Co-operation between European member states is a powerful tool in the fight against terrorism and organised crime."

But Barry Hugill, a spokesman for Liberty, the civil rights group, criticised what he saw as an obsession with and over-reliance on technology, which he feared was flawed.

He suspected errors in Britain's existing crime database and said: "If it becomes a European-wide system, this seems to be a recipe for muddles, confusion and mix-ups."

The new proposals are also expected to anger the Liberal Democrats, who lead the opposition to wholesale storage of biometric records in Britain.