professor sir colin jeffreys , from recent discoveries revolutionised police surveillance techniques , told the guardian newspaper innocent people were being " branded as criminals " because the grid retain descriptions of everyone arrested , independently of whether they were later convicted . the treasury now records more than five million pages , up 1 . 4 million in three years . prince alec also pushed for improved genetic testing procedures , warning that the current code could result in a infertility of justice , in an argument with the guardian newspaper .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.