Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 March 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:30 am

Mr. Andrew O'Sullivan:

It is important to note that data and technology strategy is a combination of data and technology. Technology is no use without data and vice versa. It is published and is called Information-Led Policing, which is the eighth principle of the Commission for the Future of Policing in Ireland. The specific recommendations of the commission have largely been implemented. The last of those is the roll-out of body-worn cameras, which is in progress. Digitisation, obviously, is an ongoing exercise but the major systems we have deployed include computer-aided dispatches, GardaSAFE, which we just talked about, the investigation management system, the deployment of a big data analytics hub to allow us to process the massive amounts of data we are dealing with, and the mobile platform, which is bearing fruit in its applications for roads policing and computer-aided dispatch. They are all in place. We are about halfway to where we want to be but digitisation will never stop because as we roll out something, it will continue to modernise-----