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The UK policing authorities are on a mission to convince male Brits to anonymously hand over DNA samples to help put sex offenders behind bars. The Swab Out Crime campaign seeks to create the Y-STR DNA reference database, a database specifically for the Y-chromosome, a part of DNA only present in those born genetically male. The reference database is not used for matching to criminals but instead shows how common, and therefore how relevant as evidence, a certain DNA profile is. But the UK police will also have to tackle a damaged reputation in handling DNA samples. The commissioner’s office revealed this year that some 1,500 DNA samples had been compromised or lost.