Gardaí 'should be given cameras’
Gardaí would immediately be able to record injuries and other evidence proving that a crime occurred - therefore reducing the need to rely on witness statements to convict, said Ivana Bacik, Reid Professor of Law at Trinity College in Dublin, after delivering a submission to the Oireachtas justice committee.
A large number of home violence cases fail because witnesses, mainly women, retract their statements or refuse to testify, in many cases because of intimidation, according to Professor Bacik.
