The Policing Commission will be recommending to the Government that a body be established to implement its findings, the chair of the expert body has said.

The head of the Policing Commission has said she is now “very optimistic” that the process to appoint the next Garda commissioner will be “thoughtful and effective” and that the “right person will be selected”.

It’s default mode in Ireland. There’s a crisis in policing and the justice system — then proposals are dusted down and presented as a fresh effort to respond to the problem.

The Government is due to initiate the process to select a Garda commissioner in December — contrary to calls from the Policing Commission that the process should wait until it reports next September.

The timeline for the selection of the new Garda commissioner is “up in the air”, the head of the Policing Authority has said.

A Garda oversight chief has said calls to put off the appointment of a new Commissioner until a policing reform body has reported are useful.

The appointment of the next Garda commissioner may not happen until 2019 after a dramatic intervention by the Policing Commission.

Civilian experts should make up a “good portion” of a new garda management team, the head of the Policing Commission has said.

Policing commission chairwoman Kathleen O’Toole has ruled herself out of consideration for the garda commissioner job.

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The body set up to plot the direction of policing will meet this week, amid claims that the Government is unsupportive of its work.

There is a complicated justice architecture in Ireland.

Just who is going to replace the Garda chief and are the force’s organisational problem solved with Nóirín O’Sullivan’s shock departure, asks Cormac O’Keeffe

Frontline gardaí have said the lack of members from ethnic minorities was a “pressing problem” for the organisation, and action was needed to address it.

An Garda Síochána is in crisis and must urgently change now or risk failing to ever reform, the head of the commission into the future of policing has warned.

In her first appearance as chief drafter of Ireland’s policing blueprint, Kathleen O’Toole came across as the kind of person you might want to be holding the pen.

There would be calls for the head of the Garda commissioner regardless of whether it was Nóirín O’Sullivan or someone else, the chair of the new policing commission has said.

There can be little doubting the credentials of many of those on the new policing commission.

The Tánaiste is “very disturbed” that Fianna Fáil would sack Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan immediately if the party gains power, dubbing it “profoundly undemocratic”.

State financial watchdog the C&AG should open an immediate investigation into the Garda college scandal as its findings could be used to begin a criminal investigation into gardaí responsible for what happened.

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The Government has appointed a former head of the Garda inspectorate to lead the imminent root and branch review of the force, despite her being embroiled in a multi-million euro overtime and management US court case last year.

The final round of interviews for the next Garda commissioner began yesterday with interim police boss Noirin O’Sullivan the first among three candidates being grilled by an expert panel.

A 40-day deadline set for a mammoth review of the Department of Justice is "ridiculously short" and belies the fundamental review needed, a leading expert has said.

The cabinet has appointed six outside experts to conduct a review of the Department of Justice.

A Carlow-based security company is to create 50 new jobs over the next 18 months following its expansion into North America.

Nothing is more important than protecting our children.

A Garda Inspectorate review has said there needs to be a major improvement in co-operation between inter-agencies handling child sexual abuse cases.

GARDAÍ have started using covert cameras in Cork city and suburbs as part of an escalating crackdown on dangerous driving by ‘boy racers’.

THE head of the Garda Inspectorate will preside over the first comprehensive public meeting on crime in Cork on November 8 next.

THE Garda will continue to be one of the most secretive police forces in the world, as there is no access to basic information, a conference on policing and accountability was told yesterday.

POLICE corruption will be one of the issues high on the agenda when delegates from forces around the world gather in Limerick today to share their experiences and methods in tacking crime.

Gardaí will begin to be armed with pepper spray over the coming weeks, it was confirmed today.

A new early warning Amber Alert system for tracking missing or kidnapped children today got the go-ahead.

THE Irish Council for Civil Liberties has criticised the Government for appointing a retired senior civil servant as head of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC).

THE establishment of a specialist, dedicated missing persons unit within An Garda Síochána is expected to be recommended in an upcoming report by the Garda Inspectorate.

MORE than 2,500 civilians have been recruited by the gardaí in a bid to get officers back on the beat, it has emerged.

AN ELITE unit of heavily armed gardaí will begin patrolling the streets of Cork from this morning.

A HEAVILY armed and highly trained Garda unit is to hit the streets of Cork from Monday week.

PAEDOPHILES, sex attackers and serious criminals from other countries are slipping unnoticed into parts of rural Ireland, because there aren’t enough full-time Garda immigration officers to keep track of them.

JUSTICE Minister Brian Lenihan said there would be no cut in policing, despite warnings by Garda bosses that the overtime budget is due to run out by August.

REGIONAL Garda firearm squads are to be set up despite the reservations of lower and middle-ranking gardaí.

THE armed response units are being set up in the wake of barricade incidents, such as Abbeylara, and a rise in the availability of guns across the country.