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Police DNA database 'is spiral
The security of the police National DNA Database is in question following the disclosure of confidential emails which reveal that a private firm has secretly been keeping the genetic samples and personal details of hundreds of thousands of arrested people.
Police forces use the company LGC to analyse DNA samples taken from people they arrest. LGC then supplies the information to the National DNA Database. Yet rather than destroy this afterwards, the firm has kept copies, together with highly personal demographic details of the individuals including their names, ages, skin colour and addre... Read more
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The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,A
18 October 2006
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Mother accuses police of drug
A Sydney mother who begged police to stop her teenage son smuggling drugs has accused Australian authorities of tipping off Cambodian police.
In a case with echoes of Scott Rush and the Bali nine, Hong Ta says she went to police in an attempt to stop her 16-year-old son from acting as a drug mule.
Instead of arresting Gordon Vuong, an AFP officer alerted the Cambodian police. Vuong is now serving a 13-year sentence in a Cambodian jail.
An AFP document published in The Bulletin magazine today shows that AFP officer Ken Harding wrote to Colonel Nhem Phala on January 7, 2005, 15 days before Vuong was arrested at Phnom Penh Airport with 2.1 kilograms of heroin.
The letter passes on "information provided by an informant in Australia" - and Ms Hong believes she was the informant.
AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty refused to be interviewed, but federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison denied that the AFP tipped off the Cambodians.
"Mr Vuong was not a person of interest in any investigation," Senator Ellison said. "The AFP did not discuss Mr Vuong's movements with Cambodian or Hong Kong authorities, nor did it provide any information concerning him."
Last year, the family of Brisbane man Scott Rush tried to stop their son, then 18, from becoming a drug mule by dobbing him in to the AFP, hoping police would stop him leaving the country. Instead, police let him fly to Bali and then tipped off Indonesian police.
Rush has since been sentenced to death as part of the so-called Bali nine.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister John Howard will appeal to the Vietnam Government for clemency for an Australian facing a possible death sentence for heroin trafficking in Vietnam.
The appeal will be raised during the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation meeting in Hanoi in November, officials in Ho Chi Minh City said.
Huu Trinh, in his mid-50s, was sentenced to death last December after his arrest with 1.9 kilograms of heroin near the border of Cambodia.
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