Gardaí to assess all sex offenders in next 3 months

GARDAÍ expect to have carried out risk assessments on more than 1,000 sex offenders living in the community within the next three months, it emerged yesterday.

Speaking at a forum on measures to manage convicted sex offenders, Detective Superintendent John McCann of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigations said that 50 gardaí had already received training in the risk assessment of sex offenders.

That training programme started just six weeks ago and he conceded that the process of assessing the 1,090 convicted sex offenders around the country was “a job of work that is ongoing”.