The Canine DNA Recovery Project: Current Findings and Next Steps

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Dawnay, N, Dawnay, L, Riley, P orcid iconORCID: 0009-0000-2584-2720 and McColl, S orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-8972-2998 (2025) The Canine DNA Recovery Project: Current Findings and Next Steps. In: Proceedings of 30th Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics, 2nd Revised and Corrected Edition (2nd). pp. 209-215. (30th Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics, 9th - 13th Sep 2024, United Kingdom).

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Abstract

In the United Kingdom, livestock attacks are a ‘non-recordable’ offence, meaning that Rural Crime Police do not routinely record their frequency. Insurance claims suggest thousands of attacks occur each year [1] costing an estimated £2.4 million in 2023 alone [2]. Due to low numbers of Rural Crime Police and the perceived low priority of the crime, police often take 3-4 days to attend the scene, in which time the deceased livestock is decomposing, reducing the value of any forensic evidence. Livestock owners or vets in attendance also lack formal training for forensic evidence collection. This means that DNA evidence from the attacking dog is rarely collected from the attacked livestock. When canine DNA is collected, it is sent to a forensic laboratory together with a suspect canine reference sample for analysis.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA1001 Forensic Medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine
R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Divisions: Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
Publisher: University of Santiago de Compostela
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Date of acceptance: 16 September 2024
Date of first compliant Open Access: 5 January 2026
Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2026 14:31
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2026 14:31
DOI or ID number: 10.15304/cc.2025.1869
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27726
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