Police hail crime-busting database

By The Nation

 

 

The Corrections Department and police have created a database of DNA and fingerprints from over 48,000 inmates, which helped solve 46 criminal cases, according to the Corrections Department chief Pol Col Narat Sawettanan.
 

Narat gave the comment after his discussion on Wednesday with the Office of Forensic Science chief Lt-Gen Panomporn Itthiprasert about a database compiling progress in a bid to solve cold cases that some inmates might have committed other than the crimes that they were currently jailed for.

 

Narat said that the police's Office of Forensic Science had in the 2017-18 fiscal year collected the DNA samples and fingerprints of 48,708 inmates.

 

The information had helped solve national security cases, thefts and sexual assaults, he said, vowing to protect the public from criminals.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30357169

 

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Would the fingerprints not have been taken anyway.

or did the forget to do some,I believe there are 300.000 +

inmates, so a long way to go.

regards worgeordie

6 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Would the fingerprints not have been taken anyway.

or did the forget to do some,I believe there are 300.000 +

inmates, so a long way to go.

regards worgeordie

You are once again letting facts get in the way of a feel good story.

You have been warned, again ????

Good...vely good to have such a database....but I would have some concerns if it's the same chaps who manage this system and also maintain the onLine network of immigration 90 day reporting....!!

A long, long way to go, but hopefully a good start if they are serious and devote resources to maintain a comprehensive and secure database 

Great now the police can read the law books and understand their job title better so in the future they dont soley rely on a database to match up prints and dna from a crime seen and actually do a little investigatitive work when requested to prevent crime.

Very interesting article as I was part of a UK forensic intelligence team which set up a similar database in the late 1980's when DNA analysis was in its infancy. It proved very successful - and still does to this day!

I thought that fingerprints were taken when Thai people applied for an ID card and if so 99% of the population would be on file ?