Southeastern European states to apply automated exchange of DNA data

Chisinau, 12 July /MOLDPRES/ – Southeastern European states will exchange automatically DNA data, dactyloscopic data and vehicle registration data. On Friday, 12 July, the Legislature has adopted ratification of the Agreement signed between the parties to the Convention on Police Cooperation and its implementing document in final reading.

According to document adopted by 72 MPs, the new agreement will help strengthen cross – border police cooperation in addressing threats to public order and safety, as well as preventing, detecting and investigating offences.

The document involves the interstate exchange of relevant info on persons involved in crime and transmission of DNA profiles and other identifying materials.

In June 2018, it was inaugurated Ist lab of forensic genetic expertise in Chisinau. The DNA expertise can be performed both at the request of law enforcement agencies and personal request. The DNA investigations are an objective test, providing assurance of up to 99.99 per cent. Earlier, the tests performed by other labs in Moldova without a lab status of judicial expertise could not be recognised as evidence in court, and the law enforcement agencies were forced to use the services of foreign labs. In order to regulate it, it will be set a legal genetic database, functioning of which will be regulated by a concept to be approved by Government.

The agreement between the parties to the Convention on Police Cooperation in South East Europe was signed on 13 September 2018 in Vienna, Austria. The document was signed by Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia.