Motion urges tighter laws for sex offenders

NEW laws compelling convicted sex offenders to provide DNA and fingerprint samples to gardaí on release are among a range of motions to be debated at the AGSI conference.

The Wexford branch wants the association’s national executive to call on Justice Minister Alan Shatter to introduce legislation to fill gaps in the monitoring of sex offenders.

The motion demands that convicted sex offenders “register in person and to be fingerprinted, palm printed, photographed, to provide a sample for DNA and to answer all relevant questions”.

The conference will hear a motion from five branches calling on the Garda Commissioner to replace all vehicles in the Garda fleet with vehicles that are “fit for purpose”.

The national executive of the association has a motion calling on Garda management to prioritise the investigation of white-collar crime and to deploy “adequate resources” to the task.

The association says staffing levels and expertise at the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation need to be boosted. A related motion from the Donegal branch calls for computer fraud units to be set up at divisional or regional level.

Today will be dominated by a motion demanding that the national executive “vigorously reject” further cuts to pay or conditions.