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The Red Group

Explore the benefits of a comprehensive DNA database, including medical advancements in disease cures and life expectancy predictions, as well as enhanced forensic capabilities in solving crimes and identifying perpetrators. The database can also prevent crimes and aid in the investigation of unsolved cases. Trust in the power of DNA to revolutionize criminal justice and improve public safety.

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The Red Group

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  1. The Red Group A Comprehensive National DNA Database Should Be Set Up The Case for it

  2. The Red Team • Leader: • Ronan McDonnell • Speaker 1: • Danny McEntee • Helpers: • Simon Lewis • Sarah McCarthy • Speaker 2: • Mark McCann • Helpers: • Joseph MacMunn • Ronan McDonnell • Speaker 3: • Joseph MacMunn • Helpers: • Conor Kelly • Declan McGuire • Rebuttal: • Simon Lewis • PowerPoint • Declan McGuire • Jason McCandless

  3. A DNA Database has been defined as: “collections of genetic sequence information, or of human tissue from which such information might be derived, that are or could be linked to named individuals.”House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Human Genetic Databases: Challenges and Opportunities (HL Paper 57 20 March 2001) at paragraph 3.3.

  4. Speaker 1 Danny McEntee • Medical benefits • Speaker 2 Mark McCann • Forensic advantages • Speaker 3 Joseph MacMunn • Issues

  5. Why are we so afraid of technology?Lets just look at the benefits.

  6. Medical benefits of a DNA Database • Possibility of obtaining more disease cures • Predict future health and Life expectancy • Possibility of enhancing human life

  7. Last month researchers announced that one flawed molecule in the human genome causes a disorder that accelerates the ageing process in children

  8. Speaker 2 Mark McCann

  9. Crime Red Group

  10. Key Benefits • To link a perpetrator to a crime or scene of a crime • To link together numerous crimes • To enable those who have previously been convicted of an offence to be readily identified and recaptured in the event that they re-offend • To preclude the use of false or assumed identities Red Group

  11. Key Benefits (continued) • To identify perpetrators quicker • To exclude current suspects of a crime from an investigation • Can be used in a wide range of crimes from theft to murder and rape. • The database can also prove people’s innocence.

  12. BUT WAIT! There's More • It will also prevent crimes from occurring in the first place: • The existence of the database would in itself discourage people from committing crimes. • Not only will the Database aid current and future investigations, it can help past • unsolved mysteries!

  13. Case Study John Wood Brian Lunn

  14. Use in a previously unsolved case • The rape of a 21 year-old au pair in North London in 1989 • The profile generated from the scene of crime stain was stored on the database • Nick Keall, a minicab driver was arrested for assault on Christmas Day 2001 • A sample was taken from him and his profile was run against the database • A ‘match’ was reported with the stain from the crime scene of the rape • Keall was convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment

  15. Conclusion • The DNA database can be used to enhance the existing system • It is NOT a replacement • In conjunction with other police resources it would make criminal investigation a more efficient process

  16. Speaker 3 Joseph MacMunn

  17. Less than six-millionths of a gram of DNA contains more information than ten volumes of the Complete Oxford English Dictionary, weighing more than ten kilograms.If one were to unravel all the chromosomal threads in the human body and stretch them end to end, the resulting strand would go from the Earth to the Sun and back again nearly twenty times.

  18. Elementary my dear Criminal!

  19. Trust the Boys in Blue

  20. Rebuttalist Simon Lewis

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