Frontline knew ‘very little’ of how fines system worked

Frontline gardaí know “very little” about how the system for issuing fines works and had no formal training in the area for 12 years, the O’Sullivan report found.

That is despite the number of offences attracting fines, known as fixed charge notices (FCN), rocketing to 614 — a huge number compared to other policing jurisdictions.

Gardaí have also been using an IT system which was fundamentally flawed, with coding errors that failed to signal when FCNs were improperly processed.