professor sir alec jeffreys , whose pioneering findings revolutionised police investigation techniques , told the national that innocent people were being " branded as crime " because the database preserved images of everyone arrested , regardless of whether they were later convicted . the data now holds more than five billions profiles , up 1 . 4 million in two days . governor alec also called for efficient blood testing procedures , warning that the new system could result in a pregnant of correction , in an interview with the chronicle news .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.