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Officials within the police would like to see powers introduced allowing them to take DNA samples from speeding drivers.

Currently, the law allows for swabs and fingerprints to be taken once a recordable offence - one which could carry a prison term - has been committed.

If such a move saw dangerous driving curbed, it may result in road safety improving in addition to lower car insurance premiums.

And Inspector Thomas Huntley of the Ministry of Defence Police claimed that the measure should be seriously contemplated.

"While the increase of suspects on the database will lead to an increased cost, this should be considered as preferential to allowing a serious offender to walk from custody following arrest for a non-recordable offence," he said.

Figures from the Department for Transport estimate that some 20,000 lives have been saved through government drink-driving campaigns over the last 13 years.

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