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Federal Police will create a database of DNA to fight crime

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The federal police will establish a national database with DNA samples from criminals, the suspects, the victims and also obtained in places where crimes occurred. A computer program will allow the crossing of thousands of stored data, which can lead to the elucidation of many crimes.

The computer program was created by U.S. Federal Police, the FBI. Here, the database has helped in more than 83 thousand investigations. The FBI will give the program for the Brazilian Federal Police, which will connect 18 DNA laboratories across the country.

A strand of hair, blood, saliva that is in the cigarette. From all that can be drawn from samples of DNA, the material reveals the genetic identity of a person. "This can be used in future. That is, a person accused can enter the bank in ten years and make good for a crime that happened today, "said the director-technical of the Federal Police, Paulo Roberto Fagundes.

Thus, the police discovered five years ago, Vilma Martins that the gunman was not the real mother of Roberta Jamily, still carried a baby maternity. Roberta did not want to take the exam, but a police officer to collect the remains of Goiânia cigarette she was smoking and the test could be done.

It was also a DNA test that proved the identity of the man who Raped and killed the rowers do Flamengo Priscila Souza, Rio de Janeiro at the end of last year.

For the Judiciary, the database represents an important advance. "It will facilitate identification of the perpetrator of criminal action, and while that may exonerate being wrongly accused," said the chairman of the Association of Brazilian Magistrates (AMB), Mozart Valadares Pires.



Source: G1

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