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:

We are in agreement with the Deputy. We would like there to be more CCTV in some very difficult areas. We look forward to making submissions regarding legislation to enable further use of static CCTV - particularly that which allows for automatic number plate recognition - and using it to prevent and detect crime. There is a lot of other technology that can be brought to bear. Average speed cameras that record a vehicle's speed over a distance rather than at one point would be an effective response in the context of road safety, particularly on major roads - other than motorways - that are blighted by serious road traffic collisions.