Ms Paula Hilman:

First, the online portal is undoubtedly something I and the rest of our senior team support. It is part of our digital strategy and part of our digital evidence management system, DEMS, which we are currently rolling out. It links with other pieces of work and it will be reliant on both funding and confirmation of the legislation - the digital devices Bill - currently being developed and it will be subject to procurement and a better understanding of the product that we require. We have looked at other jurisdictions as well so we are not sitting waiting for this and are preparing to have an online portal. In many other jurisdictions it is not solely a matter of people uploading. People need to make a report, they will get a link and they will upload that. Being realistic, it will in all likelihood be 2024 before that will be going live for us. I was speaking to our chief information officer just to get an update in anticipation of that question being asked. However, we are totally committed to it. More life is online and video technology is used.

In the interim to try to do what we can with what we have currently, we are going to relaunch our traffic watch system. That means we are going to do some internal work where those reports will go straight into our CAD centres, our control centres. Currently, they go into our telephone system. Moving them to control centres that operate 24-7 will allow those to be considered in a much more timely manner. Again, we are looking at the first or second quarter at the start of next year, so we will do that in the interim but with our full commitment to that because we recognise and hear, and that is what they have in other jurisdictions.

Second, I agree very much with what Deputy Costello said about enhanced powers, and as we have heard today with all this and the safety issue, it is a collaborative approach with other partners but using technology where we can.

Many other jurisdictions have a clear use of technology and enforceable powers where people park in bus or cycle lanes. I hear what Deputy Costello is saying about dangerous parking and other potential road traffic offences. They would each need to be looked at individually to show how they would constitute those offences. I know that Chief Superintendent Murphy did some research a couple of years ago in terms of other jurisdictions and enforcement of bus lanes, and how that is done totally by technology and in many areas by local authorities. Any enabling powers that assist us in traffic management are to be welcomed.