Call centre ‘frees up gardaí’

A 24-HOUR call centre in Co Mayo where clerical staff input garda reports into the Pulse system is freeing-up officers to fight crime on the beat, it was claimed yesterday.

Vodafone recently secured a contract to supply a telephone network to the facility in Castlebar.

Gardaí in the local district can phone in incident reports and they are typed into the Pulse system by surplus clerical staff recruited from the local decentralised Agriculture Department.