Call for end to performance related bonuses

MIDDLE-RANKING gardaí have called for an end to performance-related bonuses to senior officers.

Delegates to the annual conference of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors said that in the current economic climate top Garda bosses should not be getting bonus top-ups.

John Sherlock of the Cavan/Monaghan branch told the conference yesterday that 15 senior gardaí from the rank of assistant commissioner up received bonuses in 2007.