Call for full-time immigration officers in all districts

PAEDOPHILES, sex attackers and serious criminals from other countries are slipping unnoticed into parts of rural Ireland, because there aren’t enough full-time Garda immigration officers to keep track of them.

That’s according to the Garda Representative Association (GRA), which wants full-time immigration officers stationed in every Garda district.

GRA central executive committee member Pat O’Sullivan said that, while legislation was created in 2001 obliging foreign paedophiles to notify the authorities of their presence here, many simply ignore it and, in a number of cases, they have also assumed false identities.