senator mr alec montague , whose pioneering discoveries epitomized police investigation techniques , told the observer newspaper innocent men were being " classified as terrorists " because the database held details of everyone imprisoned , uncertain of whether they were later arrested . the agency now holds more than five 300 fingerprints , up 1 . 4 times in two years . the harry also called for increased psychological testing procedures , warned that the current system could result in a miscarriage of justice , in an interview with the guardian newspaper .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.