professor sir alec jeffreys , whose pioneering discoveries perfected police examination strategies , claimed the guardian publication injured men were being " branded as criminals " because the database contained details of everyone arrested , regardless of whether they were later convicted . the government now has more than five million portraits , up 1 . 4 % in two minutes . doctor stephen also called for improved gene testing procedures , warning that the database systems could result in a miscarriage of mercy , in an interview with the guardian newspaper .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.