Overview
- Congress leader Fernando Rospigliosi signed the bill Wednesday at the Legislative Palace, formally creating the National DNA Profile Database.
- The National Police’s forensics directorate will administer the system under Article 166 of the Constitution, which assigns it criminal investigative duties.
- Use is limited to active investigations with built-in deletion of records when storage is not warranted, alongside protections for privacy and equal treatment.
- The police chief said the tool will add scientific rigor to work with prosecutors and judges and will remove the need to ship biological samples abroad.
- The law relies on legally obtained, non-coding DNA for matching evidence and is designed to interoperate with foreign registries to combat organized crime.