Garda Inspectorate report: A glimpse into a culture of chaos

An Garda Síochána is riddled with systemic, operational deficiencies, the Garda Inspectorate has found. Caroline O’Doherty reports

CRIME numbers are routinely understated and detection rates exaggerated, the Garda Inspectorate has found.

In a sample of 2,195 crimes recorded on PULSE, the Garda computerised incident recording system, 946 or 43% were recorded as solved when only 575 or 26% were actually solved — inflating the success rate by two-thirds.