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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Anthony France

‘Half of Met Police officers missing from DNA database’ in new vetting scandal after Wayne Couzens

Wayne Couzens murdered Sarah Everard (handout/PA) - (PA Media)

Around half of the Metropolitan Police’s 33,000 officers could be missing from its own DNA and fingerprint databases hampering efforts to weed out sex predators like Wayne Couzens.

Scotland Yard bosses are planning a multimillion-pound 12-month project to retake staff biometric data, which is expected to face fierce opposition.

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