€4m garda incident centre saves hundreds of working hours

WITH just the click of a call button, a €4 million garda nerve centre is saving hundreds of working hours for members of the force recording crimes.

The PULSE call centre was recently set up in Castlebar, Mayo, and is accounting for up to 9,000 calls a week from gardaí recording incidents.

When fully operational, the centre can expect to be processing about 11,000 incidents weekly.