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

Garda Inspectorate report: A glimpse into a culture of chaos
Wed, 12 Nov, 2014 - 00:00
Caroline O’Doherty

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.

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