Attorney-General Simon Corbell said the technology currently used to allow victims to give evidence remotely was "not up to scratch" and was hampering the delivery of justice.

Under the upgrade, there will also be more prosecutors, more counsellors, more police and $80,000 spent on a victim education package in what the attorney-general described as an urgent set of reforms.

The new closed circuit TV systems, one for the Magistrates Court and one for the Supreme Court, will cost $1million and include an evidence suite at a city centre location away from the courts which will boost the quality of the sound and pictures of victims' evidence.

Remote evidence suites are meant to minimise the chances of a victim coming face-to-face with their alleged attacker.

"The existing remote evidence arrangements are very poor and do not give high-quality audio or visual evidence to the court and the jury," Mr Corbell said.

"It hinders the ability of the magistrate in the court to evaluate the evidence. It is very important that the full magnitude of the evidence is not diluted due to poor images and sound."

There will be an extra staff member each for the Canberra Rape Crisis Centre, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Victims of Crime Coordinator's Office, expected to cost about $1.2million over four years, and another police officer to work on prosecuting sex crimes.

The announcement, made yesterday, is in response to a discussion paper, Responding to Sexual Assault, compiled by the Australian Federal Police, and the Director of Public Prosecutions and issued in March 2005.

DPP Richard Refshauge told The Canberra Times last year that as few as 20 per cent of reports of sexual assaults made it to court.

Mr Corbell said he had been concerned by sex attack victims reporting bad experiences in the justice system.