Gardaí call for mandatory 12-year sentence for attacks on officers

Rank and file gardaí are calling for the introduction of a manadatory 12-year sentence for attacking a member of the force.

Rank and file gardaí are calling for the introduction of a mandatory 12-year sentence for attacking a member of the force.

It is one of 20 motions up for discussion at the annual conference of the Garda Representative Association, which resumes in Limerick this morning.