A series of new tenders issued by An Garda Siochana shows the force is separately planning to fork out around €260,000 on bringing in actors to engage in role play with officers engaged in specialist training.
Gardai are to spend €4million on recruitment specialists to assist with hiring staff over the next two years.
The largest tender sees gardai setting a budget of €4million for an end-to-end recruitment service over the one-year term of the contract which can be extended for up to a further 12 months.The Government has set a target of increasing the strength of the Garda workforce to 15,000 members, 4,000 civilian staff and 2,000 Garda reserves.
Among the specialist categories where vacancies are expected to arise are human resources, occupational health, communications, legal, finance, information technology and forensic cartographers and photographers.
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