DNA behind bars
In Russia, the creation of a single DNA database begins, where the genetic material of all particularly dangerous criminals will be placed. The registration of these data was legalized by the State Duma, but it is not yet clear who and how will collect the DNA of prisoners. Details – from Alexey Borzenko.
Alexey Borzenko, TV Center correspondent:– It can take from two to three years to create a DNA database for serious and especially serious crimes.
But such a database will help to solve recidivist crimes of this kind almost one hundred percent.
The State Duma has legalized the introduction of state genomic registration in the country – DNA analysis. And now work has begun on the creation of a federal DNA database, where the "gene" identification data of convicts and those serving sentences for committing serious and especially serious crimes will be stored. It will also include genomic "passports" of maniacs who commit sexual crimes.
Anna Rybakova, Head of the Department of Expertise of Biological Objects and Records of the Forensic Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation:– In connection with the adoption of the 242nd law, we finally got the opportunity to put DNA data of a certain category of persons into the database, these are just people convicted or serving sentences for committing serious and especially serious crimes.
The circle of these people is limited to this category of crimes. That's a lot of people actually, about 400 thousand.
Each person has his own unique structure of the length of DNA fragments, it is stored by any cell, blood, sweat, urine, hair, dandruff, fingerprints also have individual cellular material. DNA analysis allows 100 percent to determine the paternity of the child. The creation of a criminal DNA database will be a major breakthrough in the field of criminology. But so far this issue has its own interdepartmental difficulties.
We are not the only ones involved in the implementation of the law, I mean not the only ones from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we have the FSIN here – the Federal Penitentiary Service. This can be done only on condition that they are sent to us, we will not go to the FSIN institutions ourselves to take blood samples. A regulatory document should be created between us and the FSIN. He's not here yet.
The presence of the criminal's DNA data in the database will stop the criminal from relapsing.
After being released, these people, well, firstly, they will remember that they are placed in the database, they know it, they will know. Maybe it will stop someone after all. This is prevention, on the one hand. On the other hand, this will not stop someone, he commits a crime, and biological traces still remain at the scene of the incident usually. If traces are found, if DNA is isolated and checked against the database, that's it, it's clear who the trace belongs to. This man was at the crime scene.
Anna Rybakova recalls an unusual case when, with the help of DNA analysis, a sex maniac was found in Nizhny Novgorod, that experts found traces, there was a series of rapes and traces identical from the crime scenes. It is clear that the series, and brought the suspect's blood, and the experts, thanks to them, saw: the blood seems to be a relative, the trace does not belong to this person, who was presented for comparison, but it looks like a relative. And they asked the investigator if he had a brother, it turned out that he had a brother. They brought my brother's blood– that's him.
DNA analysis is powerless only in one case – if identical twins are suspected, they simply have the same DNA. The new database will facilitate the work of all law enforcement and investigative agencies.
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