Gardaí to spend over €100m to revamp and service IT system

The policing systems which will be the subject of said maintenance include the main Garda PULSE database, investigations and property management services, the fixed charge penalty system, the Garda vetting system, and “others to meet very specific policing needs”. File picture: Eddie O'Hare

An Garda Siochána (AGS) is to spend more than €100m in overhauling and maintaining its various IT systems.

The gardaí have gone to tender for the provision of enterprise solutions for the management of its IT services and assets at a projected cost of €12m over a five-year period, with the requirements for same to remain confidential.