Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Barry Carey:

Yes, I am referring to actions taken in the UK. We have been looking at best practices in other locations, such as the United States, which could be applied here without huge cost. Best practice might involve the latest technologies in property marking. We have been looking at this to see what we can bring to the communities and IFA members. Instead of using lots of manpower to search for elderly members of the community with dementia or Alzheimer's who have gone missing drones are used. They are also used in the rural crime taskforce to scan the countryside when specific activities were going on. This was a cheap and very effective operation used to support members on the ground.

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