1. A Comprehensive National DNA Database Should Be Set Up
The Red Group
A Comprehensive National DNA Database Should Be Set Up
The Case for it
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2. The Red Team PowerPoint Speaker 3: Helpers: Conor Kelly Sarah McCarthy
Leader:
Ronan McDonnell
Speaker 1:
Danny McEntee
Helpers:
Simon Lewis
Sarah McCarthy
Speaker 2:
Mark McCann
Joseph MacMunn
Speaker 3:
Joseph MacMunn
Helpers:
Conor Kelly
Declan McGuire
Rebuttal:
Simon Lewis
PowerPoint
Jason McCandless
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3. A DNA Database has been defined as: “collections of genetic sequence information, or of human tissue from which such information might be derived, that are or could be linked to named individuals.” House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Human Genetic Databases: Challenges and Opportunities (HL Paper March 2001) at paragraph 3.3.
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4. Speaker 1 Danny McEntee Joseph MacMunn Speaker 2 Mark McCann Speaker 3
Medical benefits
Speaker 2
Mark McCann
Forensic advantages
Speaker 3
Joseph MacMunn
Issues
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5. Why are we so afraid of technology? Lets just look at the benefits.
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6. Medical benefits of a DNA Database
Possibility of obtaining more disease cures
Predict future health and Life expectancy
Possibility of enhancing human life
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7. Last month researchers announced that one flawed molecule in the human genome causes a disorder that accelerates the ageing process in children
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8. Speaker 2
Mark McCann
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9. Crime
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Red Group

10. Key Benefits To link a perpetrator to a crime or scene of a crime
To link together numerous crimes
To enable those who have previously been convicted of an offence to be readily identified and recaptured in the event that they re-offend
To preclude the use of false or assumed identities
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Red Group

11. Key Benefits (continued)
To identify perpetrators quicker
To exclude current suspects of a crime from an investigation
Can be used in a wide range of crimes from theft to murder and rape.
The database can also prove people’s innocence.
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12. BUT WAIT! There's More
It will also prevent crimes from occurring in the first place:
The existence of the database would in itself discourage people from committing crimes.
Not only will the Database aid current and future investigations, it can help past
unsolved mysteries!
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13. Case Study
John Wood
Brian Lunn
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14. Use in a previously unsolved case
The rape of a 21 year-old au pair in North London in 1989
The profile generated from the scene of crime stain was stored on the database
Nick Keall, a minicab driver was arrested for assault on Christmas Day 2001
A sample was taken from him and his profile was run against the database
A ‘match’ was reported with the stain from the crime scene of the rape
Keall was convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment
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15. Conclusion The DNA database can be used to enhance the existing system
It is NOT a replacement
In conjunction with other police resources it would make criminal investigation a more efficient process
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16. Speaker 3
Joseph MacMunn
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17. Less than six-millionths of a gram of DNA contains more information than ten volumes of the Complete Oxford English Dictionary, weighing more than ten kilograms. If one were to unravel all the chromosomal threads in the human body and stretch them end to end, the resulting strand would go from the Earth to the Sun and back again nearly twenty times.
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18. Elementary my dear Criminal!
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19. Trust the Boys in Blue
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20. Rebuttalist
Simon Lewis
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