Overview

• Congress’s Constitution Committee approved the combined draft 14–7 with 1 abstention to create the National Genetic Profile Data Bank.
• The proposal grants exclusive administration to the National Police, explicitly leaving out the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Legal Medicine Institute.
• The text allows registering genetic profiles of convicted people, those under investigation, detainees, and victims without clear distinctions or safeguards for presumption of innocence and privacy.
• Backers led by Fernando Rospigliosi and Juan Lizarzaburu say the database would modernize investigations beyond fingerprints and bolster crime-fighting capacity.
• Opposition lawmakers, including Ruth Luque, object to concentrating sensitive data in the police, and the draft still requires approval by the full Congress to become law.