Garda Policing Plan: Don’t put off essential reform

THE Garda Policing Plan 2018 has much to recommend it, including an initiative to deal with domestic violence in a more coherent way, a policy to recruit from minority groups, new measures to deal with cyber crime and the formation of a special team to deal with the fallout from Brexit.

Among the initiatives in the plan is the updating by next June of the much-maligned Garda Pulse system to support the recording of domestic violence, a commonplace feature of many other police forces, including the PSNI in Northern Ireland.