The MPs adopted in the first reading a bill that specifies the conditions for collecting and keeping DNA samples for preventing and fighting offenses and identifying missing persons. A molecular genetics laboratory is to be created for the purpose, IPN reports.

Deputy Minister of the Interior Oleg Babin said that different kinds of traces are collected at the crime scene. These are used to identify the objects to which they belong. The biological samples are the only material evidence that can help identify persons, including those who went missing or died as a result of natural disasters, large-scale accidents or murders.

The bill provides that the management of a computerized genetic database to swiftly identity offense authors based on the genetic profile is a very important factor. “Efficient investigation and crime discovery are practically impossible without using the results of genetic examinations,” said the bill authors.

A sum of €3.5million is needed to set up the lab, at the Ministry of the Interior, to outfit it and to train the personnel.