'DNA profiles of those not convicted of a crime should be removed from the database in England and Wales, a government-funded inquiry has said.
Control of the database should be taken from government and police and given to an independent body, the inquiry urged.
Javed Aslam, one of the 30 panel members on the Citizen's Inquiry, said keeping the records would be "the first step towards a totalitarian state".
But the Home Office said the database helps to secure convictions.
The UK has the largest police DNA database in the world - with more than four million people on file.'
