The crime laboratory of the National Bureau of Investigation in Finland is examining DNA samples about twice as often as it resorts to fingerprint analysis. Last year the NBI crime laboratory examined 6,000 DNA samples. In the same period of time, the laboratory analysed 3,000 fingerprints.
Finland is actively sharing its database with neighbouring countries as European Union countries are exchanging more information. “We have made extensive exchanges of DNA registry information based on bilateral agreements with our neighbouring countries Sweden and Estonia. As a result, the perpetrators of a significant number of crimes have been found,” says Kimmo Himberg, the head of the NBI’s crime laboratory.
“In the coming years the exchange of information is expending by degrees to other EU countries. International comparison is slowly becoming routine. The registries compare themselves with each other automatically every night.” Read more here.