Ms Laura Galligan:

Very much so. If the incident is not recorded correctly, there is no way that we can analyse or predict any escalation of a domestic violent relationship. One of the reasons for the domestic homicide review was to identify whether there are trends in the escalation or whether they are lone events. However, if it not recorded correctly on PULSE, there is no way for us to analyse other than to go through everything incident by incident. That is what I was doing. I would go in, look at an incident and keep going back manually. It is a time-consuming exercise.