The Garda Operating Model will see more front line gardaí and a stronger focus on community policing.

The number of new cases involving gardaí being suspended from duty has jumped three-fold in the last three years.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said that drugs represent an “immediate and imminent” issue for the public, despite all the successes his organisation has had against gangs.

Families of homicide victims are “retraumatised” by failings identified in a review of homicide investigations, a support group has said.

The authority's commentary said the review found that 28 cases had at least one “investigative issue”, ranging from minor issues to ones that were a “cause for concern”.

In his first public comments since being appointed, Bob Collins said the authority will be “unrelenting and undeviating” in using its statutory powers to advise the minister of justice of any such danger.

An internal review of Garda investigations has found that there were 28 homocide cases in which errors were made and 12 deaths which were misclassified.

The Policing Authority has raised concerns about the implementation of a long-awaited system for assessing work performances within An Garda Síochána.

Crime detection figures are being published today, breaking a four-year gap in independent data on the Garda crime-solving rates.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris says there is evidence that the rise of rightwing extremism seen abroad had started to “lap upon our shores”.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris is to be grilled about his attempt to promote 168 officers to sergeant without a competition, amid growing unrest within the force.

A Garda Chief Superintendent has accused a whistleblower of an orchestrated campaign designed to prevent his promotion and of character assassination by politicians, a tribunal has heard.

The Policing Authority is ordering a review of the Garda adult caution scheme, in which adults are given a caution, rather than prosecuted in the courts, for less serious crimes.

Recorded violent crimes have soared in the last four years, with a surge in murder threats, serious assaults, and rapes.

Recorded violent crime, including sexual offences, as well as drug and fraud crimes saw significant increases in the last year.

More than 460 gardaí have so far being disciplined in relation to the failure to prosecute almost 3,500 juvenile offenders, it has emerged.

The process of amalgamating garda regions has already begun as gardaí usher in the biggest restructuring of the force in the history of the State.

The nine Garda divisions that have lost their divisional headquarters have been revealed following an announcement by Garda HQ.

The civil rights bodies claim that there has been an increase in passport checks, which they said follows assurances from both governments that there would be no return to a hard border.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris is expected to decide in the coming weeks what garda divisions are to lose their headquarters under the new Garda restructuring strategy.

At least 70% of gardaí should receive specific domestic violence training, a national charity working in the area has said.

Frontline gardaí say plans need to be urgently published on how the organisation is going to police the border and staff checkpoints in a crash-out Brexit.

Staffing problems are hitting garda armed support units, the national fraud unit, divisional squads tasked with investigating sexual and domestic crimes, and regional cyber crime units.

Overall, the Policing Authority says most of the commitments in the Policing Plan for 2019 are being met.

Garda chiefs have laid bare to the Department of Justice the consequences of not providing special budgets for high-level visits to Ireland.

On Monday, a new policing plan for the future went into effect. We will now have fewer, larger Garda divisions. Six overarching regions will become four. Twenty-fourdivisions will become 19. That’s the architecture.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has summoned local commanders to a meeting in the Garda College, Templemore, next Monday on his new policing plan.

The State’s expert Garda reform agency says the restructuring announced by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris is a “significant step” towards better policing.

The gardaí announced restructuring plans today which detail improvements to its structures, processes, services and governance.

A network of 19 “mini police forces” is to be set up across the country under a massive restructuring of the Garda organisation.

A speedy response by gardaí in Cork city ensured that a tourist robbed of her travel documents on the day she was due to fly out was able to make her flight.

A revamp of senior garda ranks is expected tomorrow with Commissioner Drew Harris to announce appointments and a management reshuffle.