Gardaí 'not appropriate' for transporting travellers to hotel quarantine

Gardaí 'not appropriate' for transporting travellers to hotel quarantine

Gardaí have issued 5,784 fines for breaches of Covid regulations since last April. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The Policing Authority has advised against using gardaí for the transportation and supervision of international travellers subject to mandatory quarantine  under Government proposals.

Publishing its latest report on Garda policing of the pandemic, authority chairman Bob Collins said they have been reassured by Commissioner Drew Harris on his approach to the increase in fines gardaí have imposed since January for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions.

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