34APolice officers may volunteer to undergo non-intimate forensic procedures

34A Police officers may volunteer to undergo non-intimate forensic procedures

[Section 34A Inserted by No. 34 of 2008, s. 5, Applied:19 Nov 2008]

(1)  A police officer may volunteer to undergo one or more of the following non-intimate forensic procedures carried out in accordance with this Act for the purpose of differentiating the officer's forensic material from other forensic material found at crime scenes generally or, if so specified by the officer, only at a particular crime scene:

(a) the taking of a sample of saliva;

(b) the taking of a sample by buccal swab.

(2)  The information obtained from an analysis of the forensic material taken from a police officer under subsection (1) may be used –

(a) with regard to crime scenes generally; or

(b) if so specified by the officer when volunteering to undergo the non-intimate forensic procedures under that subsection, with regard to the specified particular crime scene only.