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Publication of Forensic Information Databases Strategy Board annual report and updated governance rules

I am pleased to announce that I am today publishing the Annual Report of the Forensic Information Databases Strategy Board for 2020-21 and the updated Governance Rules. This report covers the National Fingerprints Database and the National DNA Database (NDNAD).

The Strategy Board Chair, DCC Ben Snuggs, has presented the Annual Report of the National DNA Database to the Home Secretary. Publication of the Report is a statutory requirement under section 63AB(7) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 as inserted by section 24 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.

The Report shows the important contribution that the NDNAD and the National Fingerprint Databases (policing collections) make to supporting policing and solving crimes. I am grateful to the Strategy Board for their commitment to fulfilling their statutory functions.

Both the report and governance rules have been laid before the House and copies will be available from the Vote Office.