VIDEO: Crimecall producers prank Philip Boucher Hayes during filming

We’re used to seeing Crimecall presenter, Philip Boucher Hayes, report about crimes on our TV screens, but viewers tonight will get to see him actually in the midst of one. Well, not a real one.

VIDEO: Crimecall producers prank Philip Boucher Hayes during filming

The producers of the monthly series arranged for a man to push a woman and steal her handbag in order to test the Gardai's new facial recognition technology, called EvoFIT.

It will allow them to put together an accurate picture of a criminal using eyewitness information, and it apparently

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