Irish security oversight should learn from North 'mistakes' 

Plans for an independent examiner and a central, more powerful oversight system of intelligence and organised crime

Covert policing and the handling of informants, known as ‘Covert Human Intelligence Source’ in An Garda Síochána will come under the remit of the new independent examiner.

Irish authorities need to learn from the mistakes in covert policing and the handling of informants in the North as they finalise blueprints for intelligence oversight structures here.

Human rights agencies said secretive policing operations had gone “badly wrong” in the past in Northern Ireland, damaging people’s trust in the criminal justice system.