Government is warned not to parachute in outsider Garda chief

The AGSI has told the Government “not to throw the baby out with the bathwater” in parachuting a police officer from another country in as commissioner.

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors urged the Government to be “cautious” in taking the unprecedented step of appointing an external candidate to replace ex-Commissioner Martin Callinan.

The association praised Acting Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, with one senior official describing her as having a “less dictatorial” approach to the job.