Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Drew Harris:

Our policy would be to introduce them. We need legislation to do that. That legislation is being worked through and is one of the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. When we look to purchase equipment, one of the issues for us that we will be issuing smartphones, which have a video facility. Rather than buy another camera, we may use the existing mobile phones we have issued. Regarding the costs, we must decide what way we are going to go with these but we have some time in that the legislation must be passed as well. If we are doing an out-run of 10,000-odd smartphones on which people can record video, that may be an alternative rather than buying a bespoke camera. I want that examined. Up to-----

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