'Shifting position' on why 999 calls were cancelled 'perplexing'

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris appeared to cast blame for the cancelling of 999 calls on the force's antiquated computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system. File picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

The chair of the Policing Authority has said he is “perplexed in the extreme” at the “apparent shifting position” of An Garda Síochána regarding its inquiry into the cancelled 999 calls scandal.

The latest meeting between the authority and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris heard just 114 out of nearly 6,000 cancelled domestic violence or sexual assault (DVSA) calls had involved a crime, a drop from the figure of at least 400 cited by Mr Harris in July.