Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Niall Garvey:

The short answer is yes. There are a number of registers already but the problem is they are disparate and there is no agreed national database. Muintir na Tíre has looked at this and done a pilot programme on property marking, and we might see if it can be further developed with a database. There is one in the UK which operates successfully. The police force is behind it and it is sponsored by an insurance company, which makes sense. That operates as the de facto national database. I think it should be looked at.