Crime and Security Bill

The Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee will also know that four fifths of the people on the DNA database are male. Does this suggest that there is some kind of anti-misogynistic view among the police and the judicial system that makes them single out men, arrest them and take their DNA? Of course not. Is not the reality that the whole process is colour-blind—indeed, blind to sex and colour? Those who get arrested get their DNA taken, whether they are black, male, Asian or anything else.