Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion
10:30 am
Mr. Michael Finn:
We have done a considerable amount of work in reviewing our policy on domestic abuse. That is a significant amount of work. My retired colleague was one of the principle architects and he commissioned this piece of work as part of that policy. That was just part of a series of interventions we made on domestic violence to ensure, for example, we had the equipment for patrol cars to record evidence from domestic violence scenes because people do not always come along afterwards and make a complaint notwithstanding the level of evidence at the scene. There was a great deal of work to improve the way we record and investigate incidents of domestic abuse.
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