GRA conference: Policing body to get interim breath-test report

An interim report into how gardaí seriously overcalculated roadside breath tests is to be given to the Policing Authority tomorrow, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has said.

She said it was too soon to say when the final report — being compiled by Assistant Commissioner Michael O’Sullivan — would be completed, but the interim report “will give pointers” to how an extra 1m breath tests were wrongly said to have been carried out.

The commissioner has said there is a collective responsibility for the miscalculation, but the Garda Representative Association (GRA), which represents frontline gardaí who undertake roadside breath tests on suspected drink drivers, has maintained it is not responsible for the miscalculation, claiming it is down to Garda management mistakes.