Garda management system ‘overloaded’
Garda superintendents told the Oireachtas Justice Committee there simply wasn’t the “spare capacity” to manage the Garda Reserve, which is due to be established in the autumn.
And the country’s chief superintendents said rank-and-file gardaí and middle-ranking officers — who are bitterly opposed to the Garda Reserve — would have to be involved if the voluntary body was going to work.
