Member

I laid an amendment to the DPDI Bill, based on Section 69 of the PACE Act. Officials and Ministers worried that unscrupulous lawyers would challenge every possible automated thing. They presented the spectre of murderers challenging body cam evidence and a justice system brought to a standstill by smart lawyers of drunk drivers querying whether the breathalyser was reliable. I am no longer sure that this assessment is correct since, in most cases, there would be other evidence that did or did not corroborate, such as witnesses or other officers present, urine samples and blood tests. Some departments have a habit of making a problem so big that we can never solve it.