Cameras Offer Protection To Taxi Drivers And Passengers - Westmeath Taxi Driver

It comes as a Dublin taxi driver has been sentenced to a combined 30 years behind bars.

Both drivers and passengers can face dangers in a taxi, and cameras could be used to protect both, according to a Westmeath taxi driver.

The Irish Independent reports the National Transport Authority is to examine the use of mandatory CCTV in taxis.

It comes after Dublin taxi driver, 50-year-old Ryamond Shorten, of Melrose Crescent, Clondalkin, was handed a combined prison sentence of thirty years for abusing a girl over a decade ago, and raping two women in 2022.

Mr. Moran, who has over 30 years experience as a taxi driver, says one key issue is the lack of communication between different PSV licence data bases:
 

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