lecturer sir alec o'mara , whose pioneering innovations revolutionised constabulary investigations techniques , telling the guardian newspaper innocent people were being " listed as bandits " because the database retained details of thousands arrested , inclusive of whether they were later caught . the government now holds more than a million profiles , up 1 . 4 million in two years . sir oliver also called for efficient genetic testing procedures , warning that the previous system can result in a miscarriage of justice , in an encounter with the guardian herald .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.