Nel database del DNA della polizia metropolitana manca quasi la metà degli agenti

Understandable. Collecting their fingerprints and DNA would make it really difficult for them to commit crimes, right enough.

Worth mentioning, the point of this is to precent officer DNA causing confusion at crimes scenes, not to act as a reserve for investigating officers’ offences.

So while it may be used for that purpose (and I suppose the objection is framed from that standpoint), that’s not the justification for it (and actually that would likely not be legal as a standalone justification).

Which makes this a procedural issue, not a misconduct one.

(Also I daresay most of the officers not on file will just either be quite new, or in roles where there’s no chance they’ll be at crime scenes personally).