The Interpol has launched a new global database named “I-Familia” to identify missing persons through family DNA and help the police solve cold cases in member countries.
- I-Familia can identify missing persons through family DNA and help the police solve cold cases in member countries.
- With I-Familia, however, the agency will help solve cold cases of missing persons by matching the Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of the person’s kin with that of unidentified human remains in the event that direct comparison is not possible as with cases where the unidentified person’s bodies have decomposed and where bones are found without their flesh.
- With I-Familia, Interpol will receive DNA profiles from families in member countries, which the agency says will be held separately from criminal data.
