Garda treatment of victims of crime described as 'disconcerting'

A continuing failure to keep some victims of crime informed about their investigations was described as “quite disconcerting” at yesterday’s Policing Authority meeting with the Garda Commissioner writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Authority member Vicky Conway said this failure was despite the establishment across the country of Garda Victims Services Offices — a central and much-publicised part of the commissioner’s response to various critical reports.