Fingerprinting For All Considered
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 11. A plan to introduce compulsory fingerprinting for every Briton over 21 in a bid to smash the nation’s soaring crime wave was being studied in London today. A Home Office spokesman said the plan—it would affect about 36 million men and women—was still in its early stages and was one of many
crime-fighting ideas under consideration.
But the scheme, now being examined by the Home Secretary, Mr Roy Jenkins, after suggestions from police authorities, could cause an uproar from people claiming it would impinge on civil liberties. It could also mean that visitors to Britain would be finger-printed on their arrival. The practice was tried in the United States but later dropped. During a murder hunt in Reading, southern England, earlier this year, police successfully appealed to the town’s 121,000 population to co-operate in a mass-finger-printing drive. Later a man was arrested.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31057, 12 May 1966, Page 19
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150Fingerprinting For All Considered Press, Volume CV, Issue 31057, 12 May 1966, Page 19
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