One of the country's policing watchdogs has claimed that the latest phase of its investigation of garda 999 call handling has not identified any 'new issues'.
ONE OF THE country’s policing watchdogs has claimed that the latest phase of its investigation of garda 999 call handling has not identified any “new issues”.Today the Policing Authority released a statement stating that it commissioned Derek penman, a former Chief Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland in July 2021.
Penman provided an interim report to the Authority in November 2021 and a final report in September 2022. The report states that it relates to a small number of calls, eight in total, that were not included within the “Serious Cohort” of incidents provided by the Garda Síochána for the comprehensive Call Recording Sampling Phase conducted in May 2022.
It was revealed that more than 500 calls for help from the public to Dublin’s Garda central control centre had not been responded to at one point on Tuesday evening because there were not enough gardaí available.
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