78 Taking fingerprints
Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (2001 c 16) | Legislation

Fingerprints and samples

78  Taking fingerprints

(1)     In section 27 of the 1984 Act (requirement to attend police station for fingerprinting), after subsection (1) there shall be inserted—

“(1A)     Where a person convicted of a recordable offence has already had his fingerprints taken as mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) above, that fact (together with any time when he has been in police detention for the offence) shall be disregarded for the purposes of that subsection if—

(a)     the fingerprints taken on the previous occasion do not constitute a complete set of his fingerprints; or

(b)     some or all of the fingerprints taken on the previous occasion are not of sufficient quality to allow satisfactory analysis, comparison or matching.

(1B)     Subsections (1) and (1A) above apply—

(a)     where a person has been given a caution in respect of a recordable offence which, at the time of the caution, he has admitted, or

(b)     where

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