Cultural malaise within the gardaí can be tackled, writes Michael Clifford, even though it is getting harder and harder to believe any information the force provides.

Each and every station superintendant has been out on the beat and should be able to recognise bogus figures, writes Michael Clifford.

Facing into another tribunal, change is still evading the gardaí years after the Morris Tribunal was supposed to herald a new dawn for the force, writes Michael Clifford.

Garda Commissioners don’t do kite-flying, so Nóirín O’Sullivan’s suggestion of another watchdog was likely discussed but it may not fly, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

A continuing failure to keep some victims of crime informed about their investigations was described as “quite disconcerting” at yesterday’s Policing Authority meeting with the Garda Commissioner.

Ali Hewson has revealed she uses any spare opportunity with husband Bono to try and persuade him to listen to certain matters of concern before he meets world leaders: “We have the odd bit of pillow talk. We have a board meeting occasionally over breakfast.”

A new report into An Garda Síochana has recommended ways for more officers to be assigned to front line policing.

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Under-fire West Yorkshire chief constable Norman Bettison has resigned.

The biggest ever inquiry into police actions in the UK is to be launched after a coruscating report on the Hillsborough disaster.

THE general secretary of the Garda Representative Association has accused officials within the Department of Justice of political interference in the running of the force.

Lawyers acting for British Home Secretary David Blunkett intend to lodge a legal action against Humberside Police Authority today in the latest stage of a power struggle over the future of Chief Constable David Westwood.

Humberside Police Authority put itself on a collision course with the British Home Secretary today, defying his order to suspend chief constable David Westwood after a report into police failures in the Soham child murder case.

A committee on police reform in Northern Ireland was urged 35 years ago by some officers to change the name of the force in a bid to attract more Catholic support, it was claimed today.

Files detailing the exact cost of a multi-million pound investigation into allegations that security forces plotted with loyalist paramilitary killers have been lost, it emerged today.

Policing in Northern Ireland must be allowed to deal with the present and look to the future, Chief Constable, Hugh Orde said today.

Policing in Northern Ireland has changed more in the last 18 months than in the previous 80 years, it was claimed today.

An independent team of observers is needed to establish who is responsible for triggering street clashes along one of Belfast’s sectarian interfaces, it was claimed today.

Sinn Fein and the former SDLP leader John Hume have clashed over policing in the North and the republican movement’s continuing boycott of the Police Board.

Lawyers for 2,500 police officers in Northern Ireland today began a landmark High Court action seeking compensation for trauma linked to 30 years of terror.

Requests for information about Northern Ireland's new police force have now passed the 17,000 mark.