Important lessons from previous Inspectorate reports were not heeded and systematic failures in how gardaí report crime continue to be made, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

The number of calls to the Garda national Traffic Watch phoneline, where motorists can report cases of bad driving, dropped to its lowest ever level last year.

WITH just the click of a call button, a €4 million garda nerve centre is saving hundreds of working hours for members of the force recording crimes.