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Management has been accused of “going down a dangerous road” if it is judging performance purely based on these statistics.
The authority has outlined a series of concerns about how the force operates.
O Cualáin said reviewing all 505,730 calls made by gardaí to log breath test data would take a number of years.
It is time now for the finger-pointing to stop and for that culture shift we’ve been hearing about for years to begin.
The report published yesterday details how and why checkpoints were faked.
Gardaí are having their fingers rapped over breath tests again – this time by the Policing Authority.
Chairperson of the Policing Authority Josephine Feehily was in front of the Oireachtas Justice Committee this morning.
Jim O’Callaghan said investigating such a large number of cases would “cost a huge amount of money”.
Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan has suggested that attempting to prosecute individual gardaí would be an exercise in futility.
The Garda Representative Association hit out at management, claiming the debacle is “entirely of their own making”.
Many members of the force felt senior gardaí had already made their mind up about who was to blame.
A report found that there was a 71% gap between the breath test figures recorded on Pulse, and the actual tests carried out.
A garda report into alcohol testing has found a difference of over 1.4 million between the number of tests counted and those actually carried out.
Questions are being raised after 500,000 more false garda breath tests have been found.
The figures will now be released every quarter.
In some cases, only one victim was counted even though multiple people were killed.
She has faced increasing pressure in recent months following a string of controversies.
O’Sullivan is making her first appearance in front of the Policing Authority since the scandal concerning Garda breath tests first broke.
Deputy Commissisioner John Twomey stressed all of these deaths were fully investigated.
Garda management will present an interim report on the breath test scandal to the Policing Authority this week.
The head of the Garda Representative Association said the role of managers is to ensure lower ranks are properly supervised.
There has been added scrutiny on An Garda Síochána in recent times.
The general secretary of AGSI said “the finger of blame is pointing downwards without any evidence”.
The former Nothern Ireland police ombudsman said it is “mind-boggling” that this could have happened.
Colin Connolly said he had hoped for change when Nóirín O’Sullivan took over but this just never happened.
The lack of clarity about who was involved in the internal investigation was highlighted by TD Mick Wallace when he questioned the Commissioner this week.
Although many questions were asked, few were answered.
There have been tense exchanges in the chamber this evening.
Sinn Féin has called a no-confidence motion in Nóirín O’Sullivan to be voted on next week in the Dáil.
The issue was raised a second time in 2015 after the Medical Bureau of Road Safety did its own survey of the devices.
The Commissioner told reporters yesterday she had heard the “disquiet” around the force’s latest scandal.
Fianna Fáil withdraw their support for the Garda Commissioner Nóiríon O’Sullivan.
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