Garda used Pulse to snoop for new girlfriend’s details

A garda who went snooping for personal details on a new girlfriend on the Garda Pulse system received one of 75 sanctions imposed on gardaí by the Garda authorities last year.

In the case, the Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) investigated the woman’s claims that her ex-partner had accessed her personal details through the Garda Síochána Pulse system.

The details of the case are disclosed in the Gsoc annual report for 2016 and in the case, the woman told Gsoc that the garda had told her he had looked her up on the system when they had first started dating.