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Fingerprints

  • 10-01-2012 3:16am
    #1
    Tayla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭


    Quick question, Do the gardai have to arrest people before they take fingerprints?


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  • #2
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Only suspects who refuse to provide them voluntarily.


  • #3
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    Tayla wrote: »
    Quick question, Do the gardai have to arrest people before they take fingerprints?
    If you refuse to give fingerprints they have to arrest you to take your fingerprints afaik.

    The majority of fingerprints taken are voluntary.


  • #4
    Tayla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Tayla


    In relation to say 10-15 people, they know 3 or 4 people out of them did something and they refuse to give fingerprints. Are they then allowed to arrest all of those people or would there have to be more evidence available in order to do that?


  • #5
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,577 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    The Garda would need reasonable suspicion. That would depend on the facts of the case.


  • #6
    BrianD
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    If you voluntary agree to be finger printed. What happens to the prints afterwards, are the databased?


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  • #7
    MagicSean
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    BrianD wrote: »
    If you voluntary agree to be finger printed. What happens to the prints afterwards, are the databased?

    Yes. They are subject to the data protection rules.


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