On behalf of the Authority, I warmly welcome the decision of the Government to extend the contract of the Garda Commissioner for the maximum period permitted by current legislation.
The Policing Authority has today published its Review of 2021 which provides an overview of the breadth and depth of the work it has undertaken this year.
The Policing Authority has today published the 16th in a series of reports on its assessment of policing performance by the Garda Síochána during the COVID-19 crisis.
The Policing Authority has today published an interim update by Mr. Derek Penman on the preliminary examination of the Garda Síochána review of the closure of Computer Aided Dispatch(CAD) incidents.
The Policing Authority is pleased to announce that it has made a number of senior appointments in the period 1 August to 31 October 2021.
The Policing Authority has today published ‘The Garda Síochána and Child Mental Health: An investigation of pathways to crisis mental health care’ by Professor Fiona McNicholas and Dr. Louise Rooney, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UCD School of Medicine and Dr Deirdre Healy, UCD Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
The Policing Authority congratulates Catherine Pierse, who has been appointed by Government to be the next Director of Public Prosecutions.
The Policing Authority has been actively engaged with the issue of the unwarranted cancellation of 999 calls since being first informed in December 2020 and, especially, since more detailed and comprehensive information was made available in May 2021.
Karen Shelly
pressoffice@policingauthority.ie
(01)8589090
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