professor sir alec mcdevitt , their pioneering discoveries revolutionised crime investigations techniques , assured the uk newspaper ordinary people were being " branded as crimes " because the database retained details of everybody arrested , regardless of whether they were later convicted . the government now holds more than five million profiles , up 1 . 4 million in two years . mr robert also called for improved genetic checking procedure , warning that the database system could result in a ectopic of justice , in an interview with the guardian newspaper .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.