Lack of frontline oversight of gardaí a worry

The Garda chief has said that all of the country’s divisional commanders have told him that the lack of frontline supervision of garda members was a problem.

Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) in Carlow, acting commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin said that, in a tour around each garda division, every chief superintendent had flagged this issue.

AGSI president Antoinette Cunningham told him that the shortage of sergeants and inspectors was at “crisis point” and that the problem had been made worse by the delay in the promotion competition.