‘Days of gardaí trawling through hours of footage’ should be over, Minister tells conference
Mr Harris’s comments follow similar criticism from new Fine Gael leader and taoiseach-in-waiting, Simon Harris, who said it was shameful to see the flag “spread over the coffin of a garda killer”.AGSI president Paul Curran described as “outrageous” the draping of the Tricolour on the coffin of a man who had shot dead Det Jerry McCabe in Adare, Co Limerick, during a 1996 IRA bank robbery.
“In relation to the funeral of Pearse McAuley we had no hand, act or part in it,” he said. “In relation to the placement of a tricolour, if it was our decision, one would not be on the coffin.” Mr Harris said he believed there was broad agreement that the Garda had to grow significantly. However, he noted recruitment was being hampered by the fact that classes entering the Garda College were now smaller, having regularly been 200-strong before the pandemic. He said more candidates were being offered places but were not taking them up.
The organisation needed to “significantly lift our recruitment” to grow over the next decade, he said, but how that will be achieved was yet to be determined.said they believed authorities in the United Arab Emirates were fully committed to helping their Irish colleagues in the investigation into, and extradition of, the Dubai-based leaders of the Kinahan cartel. However, they said, legal criteria had to be satisfied, and this was taking time.
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