Anger at treatment of off-duty gardaí

THE organisation representing the country’s 11,000 rank-and-file gardaí will take the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) to the European Court of Human Rights if it continues to investigate members of the force for off-duty incidents where they haven’t broken any laws.

Members of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) are particularly angry that off-duty gardaí involved in car crashes are being pursued by the GSOC.

Yesterday, for the second time in two days, the GSOC came under fire for its allegedly “heavy-handed approach”, by gardaí attending their annual GRA conference in Co Carlow.