17 days to avert national policing crisis

The Government has a full-scale policing crisis on its hands after mid-ranking gardaí decided to join frontline gardaí in taking strike action on the same four Fridays in November.

In what senior officers describe as a “nightmare scenario”, the 151 delegates of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI), representing 2,000 members, voted “overwhelmingly” to withdraw their labour on November 4, 11, 18, and 25.

It follows last month’s decision by the Garda Representative Association (GRA), representing 10,500 frontline members, to strike on those dates.