Serving gardaí may join new body

SERVING gardaí may be invited to join a new garda inspectorate as investigators, a senior civil servant involved in drawing up plans for the body said yesterday.

But those who do join will have to sever all connections with the force, Department of Justice official Frank Boughton said yesterday.

Mr Boughton revealed the department plan at a seminar on the future of policing which was organised by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and attended by the North’s police ombudsman Nuala O’Loan.