According to the Guardian, citing a report to be released tomorrow, police in the UK have been
routinely arresting people wihtout justification just to get their DNA into the national database:
Not exact matches
Yet, when a
person is
arrested for felon in possession of a firearm, prosecutors
routinely settle the case for probation.
To deal with that situation, a
person arrested Saturday evening or early Sunday morning was taken to Toronto's Don Jail — not a cell in a police station — put through an invasive body search at the jail and
routinely held, often in shared cells, until Monday morning.