Garda reserve arrest over Pulse stalking

A Garda reservist has been arrested and questioned in connection with allegedly harassing an ex-girlfriend and using the Garda computerised intelligence system, Pulse, to check who she was seeing.

It has emerged that the reserve bombarded his ex-girlfriend with hundreds of text messages following their split and left messages and CDs at her home over a number of weeks prior to her making a complaint.

It is also alleged that he used the Pulse computer system to check the registration number of vehicles parked outside the home of his ex-girlfriend and was thus able to acquire the name of the owner, their address and other details.