TD in new Garda claims

Fresh accusations of Garda malpractice, including claims that officers directed informants to carry out crimes, have been made in the Dáil.

During a debate on the O’Higgins Report, Sligo- Leitrim TD Martin Kenny (SF) outlined new allegations of malpractice in his constituency, including that gardaí engaged active criminals as informants. Such a practice would be in contravention of a CHIS (Covert Handling of Intelligence Sources) programme.

He also claimed gardaí in Leitrim used “informants, or criminals they have control over, to set up and entrap people for crimes and then prosecute these people”.