Gardaí ‘travel miles to input Pulse data’

GARDAÍ working from a newly-built €1.4 million station in Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick, will have to travel 12 miles to another station every time they have to input a crime into the Pulse computer database.

Local TD Michael Collins said the garda computer Pulse system is causing a huge waste of garda time in Co Limerick. He said gardaí stationed in the three busy towns of Abbeyfeale, Kilmallock and Rathkeale have to travel to their district headquarters at either Newcastle West, Bruff or Askeaton to access Pulse.

“The modern station is being completed in Abbeyfeale at present, but I am told it does not have the Pulse system installed. It doesn’t make sense to spend a huge amount of money on a new station and then leave it without the garda computer system,” he said.