Frequently Asked Questions

When do I have to give a bodily sample for DNA testing?

When you have been arrested and charged or convicted of certain specified offences, you can be required to give a bodily sample of blood or saliva, for use in evidence against you as well as for the Police DNA data bank.

In order to check that the Police are entitled to request a sample and to discuss the consequences if you do provide one, call a lawyer and get advice BEFORE YOU COMMIT YOURSELF.

Above all, read any notice served on your carefully. The Police can require you to provide the sample and if you do not want to provide one, the notice served on you will stipulate a time period – currently 14 days – within which you will have to request a hearing before a Judge. If you do nothing until after that 14 day period has expired, you will have to give the sample.

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