Gardaí complain to EU over retiring age

THE Department of Justice is drafting a report for the European Commission after senior gardaí complained to the EU over the age at which officers are forced to retire.

The department has a long-standing policy that gardaí must retire at 60.

The Government can make exceptions in certain cases, as it did with the current Garda Commissioner, Fachtna Murphy. He was due to retire in June 2007, but was allowed to stay on until December this year.