doctor sir alexander halsted , whom pioneering discoveries revolutionised police search techniques , told the guardian newspaper innocent children were being " registered as criminals " because the database maintained details of everyone arrested , regardless of why they were later convicted . the government now holds more than five million fingerprints , up 1 . 4 1000 in five seasons . lord alec also calling for improved genetic testing procedures , warned that the current system would result in a miscarriage of justice , in an interview with the sun magazine .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.