Being arrested: your rights
Giving fingerprints, photographs and samples
The police have the right to:
- take photographs of you
- take fingerprints
- take a DNA sample, such as from a mouth swab or head hair root
- swab the skin surface of your hands and arms
They do not need your permission to do this.
The police need both your permission and the authority of a senior police officer to take samples like blood or urine, or to take dental impressions.
This does not apply when they take a blood or urine sample in connection with drink or drug driving.
Information from fingerprints and samples is stored in a police database.
You can find out if your information is stored on the police database by getting a copy of your police records from your local police station.
You have to write to your to have your personal information removed from the police database.
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- an offence no longer exists
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