Garda Commissioner to deny force has policy to cut numbers in roads-policing unit

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris will tell the committee hearing — convened specifically to discuss the issue of road safety — that 'additional Garda members are becoming available and are being deployed to priority areas'. File photo: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie

There is no policy within An Garda Síochána to reduce the number of roads-policing gardaí, the Garda Commissioner is set to claim.

It emerged recently that just four gardaí have been added to the roads-policing roster in the past seven years, despite the surge in road fatalities seen over the past 18 months.