UK criminal DNA testing extended to London tube trains
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The UK capital's metropolitan underground train company, London Underground, is to distribute 11,000 DNA testing kits to its staff, in a bid to tackle the high number of attacks involving spitting. The initiative, which is supported by British Transport Police, will involve taking a sample of saliva and checking the results of the test against the police's national DNA database.