Garda deployment – Major flaws in organisational structure

The report that 3,000 gardaí are being drafted into Dublin for the May Day weekend, which amounts to a quarter of the whole national force, has frightening implications. Stations around the country will inevitably be seriously depleted.

With more than half of the country’s traffic corps being deployed to Dublin, there will be very few gardaí for traffic duty elsewhere.

On the same weekend last year the gardaí actually launched Operation Taisteal, a much-publicised offensive to crack down on dangerous driving over the long weekend.