€61m garda PULSE system has ‘collapsed’

THE garda PULSE computer system has “collapsed”, a district court has heard.

It follows claims that the PULSE system, which has cost €61 million since it was introduced in November 1999, is creaking under the weight of information it has to process and that it is more of a hindrance than a help to gardaí.

Judge John Neilan told Mullingar District Court that gardaí had been forced to resort to hand-written documents due to problems with PULSE a view backed by gardaí.