Senior gardaí claim chief superintendent promotions are 'biased'

Among the specific complaints that the representative body received was that Association of Garda Superintendents members, whose breadth of policing experience was not considered adequate, were not shortlisted for chief superintendent jobs. File picture

Senior gardaí have complained that the promotions system to chief superintendent is biased, does not take experience into account and is not based on merit, according to documents obtained by the Irish Examiner.

The dissatisfaction expressed by a number of superintendents prompted their representative association to investigate whether the Policing Authority is conducting the promotions according to standard procedure.