Report Summary
Issued 27 July 2023, this FOI response advises that information on the number of familial searches of the National DNA database undertaken by Forensic Services is not held by the Scottish Police Authority.
Request
From the FINDS annual reports, I see that there have been 135 familial search cases undertaken between 2013 and 2022. I would like to know how many cases involving familial searching of the National DNA database were undertaken by the Scottish Police Authority in this time scale.
In addition, do you have any information about cases where perpetrators of serious crime were identified by the use of familial searching?
