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DNA Database

Answer

The following table contains details of the individuals from each police force area, held on the National DNA Database as at 31 October 2006, grouped into ACPO regions. It should be noted that the Database shows which force took a DNA sample from the individual concerned, not which force area the person resides in.

Police force areas by ACPO region	Number of individuals on the database	Number of residents	Percentage of individuals from each police force area whose DNA is held on the NDNAD
South West
Devon and Cornwall	76,975	1,601,300	4.81
Avon and Somerset	68,549	1,511,600	4.53
Wiltshire	36,336	610,323	5.95
Dorset	35,346	677,500	5.22
Gloucestershire	31,740	564,559	5.62
Total for South West	248,946	4,965,282	5.01
South East
Thames Valley	100,301	1,918,600	5.23
Surrey	42,395	1,080,644	3.92
Sussex	77,828	1,259,130	6.18
Hampshire	101,194	1,797,500	5.63
Kent	101,132	1,599,912	6.32
Total for South East	422,850	7,655,786	5.52
London
City of London police	16,717	8,000	208.96
Metropolitan police	578,238	7,200,000	8.03
Total for London	594,955	7,208,000	8.25
Eastern
Bedfordshire	32,002	493,800	6.48
Cambridgeshire	36,893	729,800	5.06
Essex	85,791	1,622,403	5.29
Hertfordshire	52,235	1,043,000	5.01
Norfolk	47,036	783,000	6.01
Suffolk	33,152	679,900	4.88
Total for Eastern	287,109	5,351,903	5.36
East Midlands
Derbyshire	60,085	986,000	6.09
Leicestershire	47,935	974,000	4.92
Lincolnshire	32,657	634,200	5.15
Northamptonshire	31,461	638,238	4.93
Nottinghamshire	71,937	1,031,687	6.97
Total for East Midlands	244,075	4,264,125	5.72
West Midlands
Staffordshire	68,131	1,047,380	6.50
Warwickshire Police	21,396	507,900	4.21
West Mercia	53,799	1,158,476	4.64
West Midlands	205,541	2,648,939	7.76
Total for West Midlands	348,867	5,362,695	6.51
Wales
Dyfed-Powys/Haverford West	36,279	476,000	7.62
Gwent	37,694	565,000	6.67
North Wales	42,104	629,000	6.69
South Wales Constabulary	85,952	1,225,900	7.01
Total for Wales	202,029	2,895,900	6.98
North West
Cheshire	56,508	983,076	5.75
Cumbria	31,890	487,038	6.55
Greater Manchester police	176,319	2,571,800	6.86
Lancashire	98,199	1,429,450	6.87
Merseyside	89,704	1,409,372	6.36
Total for North West	452,620	6,880,736	6.58
North East
Cleveland	36,068	541,000	6.67
Durham	37,474	591,300	6.34
Humberside	59,571	900,000	6.62
Northumbria	118,929	1,438,300	8.27
North Yorkshire	39,228	737,600	5.32
South Yorkshire	83,159	1,291,200	6.44
West Yorkshire	151,337	2,110,100	7.17
Total for North East	525,766	7,609,500	6.91
Note:
The number of residents in each police force area is taken from the Police Almanac (2006). The figures from the database are those at 31 October 2006. The number of profiles shown for each force and region relates to the number of people sampled by each force, not the number of those sampled who live in the force area. This explains the figure for the City of London police – the force has a very small resident population and almost all those sampled live elsewhere. Previous statistics on the number of individuals on the Database were calculated on the basis that 11 per cent. of the profiles were replicates, i.e. the number of individuals was 11 per cent. less than the number of profiles. The Database has recently advised that the replication rate is now 13.7 per cent. so the figures have now been calculated on this basis.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

115988; 455 c2012-4W;455 c2014-6W

Session

2006-07

Related items

DNA Database
Monday, 19 February 2007
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House of Commons

Subjects

Databases Genetics

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