Prüm Power across Europe

In 2003 a burglary was committed in Co. Wexford. While it remained unknown on the National DNA Database System, upon sharing with other European countries through the Prüm Treaty, it matched to a person on the German DNA Database. Additionally it matched to a person on the Austrian Database, and it matched to other crimestains on the Dutch and French Databases. This is an example of the effective power of Database sharing across Europe, which can track international movement of repeat offenders.

On a separate occasion, the National DNA Database linked a cluster of crimestains from 5 burglaries which occurred at the end of 2022. These cases were subsequently solved by a match to a person on the UK Database.