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Guidance: Forensic information databases for research purposes: guidance

Home Office

December 20
15:27 2024

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This guidance provides details on how samples, profiles and data requests from forensic information databases for research purposes are authorised and processed in accordance with the expanded forensic information databases strategy boards policy.

This also includes a form for requesting data to support research into forensic information databases.

Updates to this page

Published 3 August 2017
Last updated 20 December 2024 +show all updates
  1. Updated 'Forensic information databases: request form'.

  2. Documents updated with changes of the wording from NFD to NFS.

  3. Updated process for release and request form to issue 2 including full review DCR479.

  4. First published.

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