Gardai Body Cams Approved

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee this week received Cabinet approval to progress the Garda Siochana (Recording Devices) Bill 2022 in the Oireachtas.

A procurement process to acquire body-worn cameras for Gardai is to begin within weeks. The cameras being procured will have controversial facial recognition software capabili- ties, pending this technology being legislated for separately and will only be allowed to be used in serious crime investigations.

Concerns have been raised by many political figures including the Green Party around the use of the technology but others such as Simon Harris have come out and backed the bill saying “it was unacceptable that the only people at a protest who did not have