Frontline garda supervisors are calling for accelerated Covid-19 testing for all gardaí to maximise policing resources and to protect members during the virus outbreak.

Some 600,000 pairs of gloves are being distributed to gardaí and a further 400,000 are to follow as part of the State’s response to Covid-19.

Middle ranking gardaí have asked Garda HQ about its plans in the event of the spread of coronavirus among members.

The garda chief superintendent for Louth has said that he has never had any difficulty securing the services of the Emergency Response Unit.

Mr D'Arcy has ignored calls to apologise to gardaí for the controversial comments.

Frontline garda supervisors in Cork city have warned that the biggest ever restructuring of An Garda Siochana since its foundation will remove policing resources away from the outlying areas into the centre.

Frontline gardaí and supervisors have expressed fears that the new restructuring of the organisation will result in less, not more, policing in rural areas.

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

Drew Harris landed the commissioner's job on the basis that he would reform the organisation.

The smart phones are described as 'mobile data stations', and provide gardaí on the roadside immediate and secure access to the same information as they would have in a garda station.

The corporate world is full of gobbledygook — but a few useful phrases emerge from the swamp of verbiage. One goes like this: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.

A top detective has revealed that when the mother of Csaba Orsos heard that her son’s killer had been found guilty, she said: “A stone has been lifted from my heart”.

Middle-ranking gardaí are calling for a real-time insurance database to help them catch uninsured drivers.

The Garda Commissioner has told middle-ranking gardaí that allegations engulfing their staff association is impacting on the entire organisation.

Middle-ranking officers claim that gardaí are in a “no-win situation” in policing court-ordered repossessions.

Civilianisation. Training. Repossessions. Staffing. Investment.

Cormac O’Keeffe Security Correspondent in Ballyconnell, Co Cavan

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has told middle-ranking gardaí that he needs to “trust” their representative body.

Garda civilian workers need ‘better knowledge of organisation’

The failure of the Labour Court to make any formal intervention in the nurses’ dispute with the Government to prevent them taking strike action in the first place is worrying, particularly in light of the overtime ban by psychiatric nurses and yesterday’s protest by 500 general practitioners.

Frontline supervisors have called on Garda management to “fully investigate” any online threats against a detective sergeant who discharged his firearm during a tense incident in Longford last Monday.

The Policing Authority has said the findings of the Disclosures Tribunal report will drive its work in overseeing the Garda obligations to the community and to ethical behaviour.

Update 10.20am: The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has said its members want to examine how any cuts to discretionary and administrative overtime will impact core policing services.

The Garda investigation into online threats against an identified garda purported to have been wearing a hood at last week’s repossession will seek to quickly examine the nature of the threats and who was behind them.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has been handed a budgetary nightmare with the organisation more than €30m in the red and Garda HQ warning that “corrective action” must be taken “immediately”.

Reported sex crimes, assaults, robberies and weapons offences have risen sharply, according to new crime statistics.

An order of new garda motorcycles has been ditched by management looking for ways of “freeing up” money to pay for a rebranding of the Traffic Corps in the wake of the breath-testing scandal.

Laws that force cyclists to wear high-visibility clothes do nothing to reduce the number of road accidents involving people on bikes, a study has found.

The support Sergeant David Haughney received has pulled him through a life-changing injury he sustained while dealing with a violent gang in East Cork.

The Garda chief has said that all of the country’s divisional commanders have told him that the lack of frontline supervision of garda members was a problem.

The Garda mental health services have been given a “five out of 10” by a psychologist amid warnings from frontline supervisors that they cannot cope with ever-increasing work-related stress.

Gardaí are trying to piece together the circumstances behind the savage murder of a 20-year-old man in Sligo town.

Middle-ranking gardaí are seeking advice from their solicitors on the prospect of taking legal action against Government plans to push ahead with proposals denying gardaí the right to strike.

Frontline Garda supervisors are to consider taking legal action against the Government over its plans to introduce legislation denying gardaí the right to strike and access to a special pay review body.

Gardaí should be constrained from withdrawing their labour or given full trade union status, a top-level government body has recommended.

Acting Commissioner Donal Ó Cualáin has called on frontline members who claim they were pressurised by managers into faking breath test figures to “give names” of those responsible.

THE army deafness claims fiasco was one of those relatively minor but revealing warts-and-all scandals to befall this society. It did huge and lasting damage to the army. It cost €288.7m of which €100.2m went on legal costs. 

Elevate: Raise or lift (something) to a higher position.

Up to a fifth of all phantom breath tests recorded by gardaí over an eight-year period were “inflated” by members, an internal Garda examination suggests.

A retired Garda has said that a body buried unidentified in Wales 32 years ago may be his father.

Frontline gardaí are being encouraged to arrest suspected domestic violence abusers under a new Garda intervention policy, writes Cormac O'Keeffe.