Points investigation centred on 189 allegations
They focused, in particular, on nine Garda officers who, it was said, were responsible for multiple cancellations of properly detected driving offences.
Six of these were superintendents and three were inspectors.
Within the list there were 17 allegations of corruption levelled at gardaí and seven claims that officers perverted the course of justice.
There was a single accusation of deception.
The claims centred on the traffic division in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.
One officer, it was said, was the subject of 14 specific allegations.
The whistleblower called on the authorities to look at occasions when points were cleared despite connections with fatal road traffic accidents and where changes were made to charges for the family members of gardaí and well-known personalities.
One of the allegations said: “A motorist involved in hit and run on (date supplied), killing a pedestrian. The driver previously had a 135km/100km speeding offence terminated by a Garda inspector.”
In another, a driver who lost control and killed a female passenger previously had an offence struck out.
As a result of the allegations, more than 2,000 cases were looked at, and of those 661 were deemed to have been carried out in way that was not right.
Three gardaí have been referred for further investigation by the internal affairs unit.
On the Pat Kenny Show yesterday, one of the whistleblowers, John Wilson, said he had come forward with the information because he believed proper policing by gardaí was being undermined by those who cancelled points without justification.
“What has happened in many cases, that I reported, you had guards doing their job, they were detecting people speeding, using mobile phones or whatever, they lawfully issued fixed charge penalty notices.
“And the person on receipt of the fixed charge penalty notice was contacted by senior gardaí, behind the back of the original, of the guard and the tickets were subsequently terminated.
“That, in effect, was undermining the authority of the guards, who were carrying out their duty as such and trying to save people’s lives,” he said.
