Officials seek relax of ‘two chiefs’ rule for joint policing forum

Cork has three garda chief superintendents but, under new guidelines issued by the departments of justice and environment, only two will in future be allowed to sit on the county’s Joint Policing Committee (JPC).

Cork County Council is to petition Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald to revert back to the old criteria where all three senior gardaí were allowed to sit on the Cork County JPC.

Newly-elected JPC chairman, Cllr Frank O’Flynn, said Cork was such a big county and it was “ludicrous” only two of its most senior gardaí would be involved in the JPC.