﻿ KMT backs bid to expand DNA file - Taipei Times Tue, Aug 02,
2011 - Page 2　News List  KMT backs bid to expand DNA file  By
Shih Hsiao-kuang  /  Staff reporter  Three years after sparking
a human rights controversy, a draft amendment to DNA sample
collection regulations has reappeared after the National Police
Agency (NPA) recently raised the mater with lawmakers.  The
draft amendment, which has passed a preliminary review in the
legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee,
was sent back for discussion last month amid allegations the
proposals would infringe on human rights.  To facilitate
management of recidivist convicts, the Ministry of the Interior
has tried to expand DNA sampling, which is now limited to those
convicted of rape or other violent crimes, to other convicts.
Three years ago it tried to persuade the legislature to pass a
draft amendment to the Sexual Assault Crime Prevention Act
(性侵害犯罪防治法) that would have mandated the enforced DNA sampling of
people suspected of rape, mu