Moldovan parliament adopts new conditions for use of deoxyribonucleic acid samples in investigating crimes
14:51 | 17.11.2017 Category: Social
Chisinau, 17 November /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament has adopted new conditions for the use of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) samples in investigating crimes. The provisions are included in a draft law on judicial genetic registration, backed with the votes 85 MPs in the final reading today.
The document ensures conditions for the collection and preservation of genetic samples needed to prevent and combat offences and identify persons disappeared. The document establishes basic requirements for carrying out genetic registrations, persons from which DNA samples can be drawn, conditions in which these samples are collected and the administrative regulations of the material accumulated.
Under the draft, the samples will be taken over by qualified staff of the Police General Inspectorate or the Forensic Medicine Centre. At the same time, a laboratory of molecular genetic analysis, as well as the computerized genetic database needed to quickly identify offences based on DNA is to be created and exchange of information on genetic data with other states is to be carried out.
About 3.5 million euros will be necessary to create the laboratory at the Interior Ministry, purchase the needed equipment and train the staff. Also, it is necessary to take into account the creation and maintenance of the genetic database, which can reach a sum of hundreds of thousands of euros. As for the subsequent maintenance of the lab, the sum may vary from 200,000 to 500,000 euros per year, depending on the number of examinations carried out.
The document will enter into force in six months after the date of its publication. Starting the date of the present law’s entrance into force, the people already convicted with the imprisonment punishment for having committed serious, quite serious and exceptionally serious offences will be subjected to compulsory genetic registration and the issuance of another court decision will not be necessary.
(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor L. Alcaza)
