News in Brief; Sweden's National Police Board has proposed that the rules for registering DNA-profiles should be the approximately the same as for fingerprints

This means that all convicted offenders DNA-profiles will be registered. Today only offenders convicted for certain serious crimes can be registered in the DNA-files. On 1 January 2004, 2.687 persons was filed in the special DNA-register and 195.800 in the fingerprint register. (Ds 2004:35)