Three hundred Dutch police officers have chosen not to give DNA samples for an internal database. Under the Constitution they cannot be obliged to do so. According to the minister of security and justice, Ard van der Steur, specialist policemen who refuse to give their DNA for this so-called elimination database, may be excluded by police management from criminal investigations in the future. The debate about this is justified in the eyes of the minister, for whom it's absolutely undesirable that the DNA of everyone involved in criminal investigations isn't entered in the database.