Professor Dermot Walsh: Garda reform plan is to detriment of oversight

Key proposals in the Policing Commission report involving a dilution in the role of the Policing Authority will “concentrate power” in the hands of Government and Garda management, a leading policing expert has said.

Professor Dermot Walsh: Garda reform plan is to detriment of oversight

Key proposals in the Policing Commission report involving a dilution in the role of the Policing Authority will “concentrate power” in the hands of Government and Garda management, a leading policing expert has said.

Professor Dermot Walsh said the recommendations will be to the “detriment” of effective oversight and said it was vital the plans be “fundamentally reworked”.

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