economist lord alec jeffreys , who pioneering discoveries epitomized police search techniques , told the guardian newspaper innocent peoples were being " registered as criminals " because the website retain details of everyone convicted , even of whether they were later convicted . the government now holds more than five million pages , up 1 . 4 million in eight years . mr alex also called for improving chromosome testing operations , warning that the original systems could lead in a miscarriage of justice , in an audience with the guardian news .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.