An external audit of An Garda Síochána will set out a blueprint for the restructuring of policing at a national and local level.

Two people, including a Garda officer, remain in custody in Co. Sligo in connection with drugs related activities in the north-west.

A female garda has been arrested in Sligo over drugs-related activities.

Around a dozen senior appointments are to be made in the force before Christmas in a bid to fill vacancies that riddle the Garda top brass.

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.

Caroline O’Doherty looks at Martin Callinan’s record prior to this very damaging, badly handled scandal

Senior gardaí yesterday insisted all the complaints in the ‘dossier’ at the centre of a Government review have already been “fully investigated” by a high-level team.

The €200,000 found hidden in the bathroom of the former mansion of Priory Hall developer and IRA hunger striker Tom McFeely will be handed over to bankruptcy officials in a matter of days.

Nearly 200 people are being arrested per month as part of a national crackdown on burglaries.

Deputy Commissioner Martin Callinan is to head An Garda Siochana from the end of the month, it was announced today.

GARDAÍ raided 20 premises in Galway yesterday in the biggest ever operation into drugs and organised crime in the west of Ireland.

GARDAÍ hope to bring charges against eight members of serious crime gangs behind the spate of ATM robberies over the last two years.

THE top ranks of An Garda Síochána will undergo a large revamp in the coming weeks as eight senior positions are filled.

SOME 220 people have applied for three top civilian analyst positions in the gardaí.

A NEW deputy garda commissioner was appointed yesterday with the brief of driving reforms within the force.

CALLS for a public inquiry into the first garda officer killed in the Troubles were yesterday backed by the widow of slain Garda Jerry McCabe.

More than 150 international experts are to attend a Dublin conference on forensic psychology hosted by the Gardaí next week.

THREE men arrested by detectives involved in two major but completely separate operations are in custody today on unrelated charges.

Gardaí have arrested three men in Meath as part of Operation Anvil, which was set up to target armed gangs and gun crime in Dublin, it emerged today.

WHEN the chronicles of major crime are written there will be one common thread — Tony Hickey.

ENFORCEMENT of drug laws is being seriously hampered by a chronic shortage of drugs sniffer dogs and gardaí trained to handle them, the AGSI conference heard yesterday.

GARDAÍ are focusing on a well-known smuggling gang as part of their investigation into the kidnapping of Kildare mother-of-three Helen Judge.

GARDAÍ investigating the kidnapping of 41-year-old mother-of-three Helen Judge have not contacted her estranged husband, it emerged yesterday.

THE availability of illegal drugs is not being affected greatly despite seizures of massive quantities of drugs, according to government and garda sources.