Policing body to seek more garda information to fulfil role

The Policing Authority has decided that it may require access to “a certain level of operational detail” on organised crime and related garda intelligence to fulfil its role. The move by the agency follows a letter it received from a deputy garda commissioner regarding the authority’s wish to discuss these issues with the garda commissioner.

The decision by the authority was made at its second monthly meeting on February 24, a couple of weeks after the double gangland murders in Dublin.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and other senior garda bosses were questioned at the time regarding garda intelligence over the paramilitary-style attack on the Regency Hotel targeting members of the Kinahan crime cartel, one of which, David Byrne, was shot dead.