DNA database under threat from European court, warns police chief / Times, 7 June 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4083267.ece
Sean O'Neill
"In his first interview since standing down as chairman of the database, Tony Lake gave warning that serious crimes would go undetected if judges barred police from storing the DNA of people who had been arrested but not subsequently convicted of an offence."