Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Garda Síochána - Review of Allowances

4:40 pm

Mr. Martin Callinan:

Sure. The first point to make is that with social media and the way they are going, there certainly is a requirement to be skilled up in this area. We have a computer crime investigation unit based in Harcourt Square, which monitors sites, reviews our social media policy and generally provides advice to our members and to communities. We are working very hard with our colleagues in UCD to provide a greater skill-set base and knowledge in and around this entire area. However, it is a vast subject and the idea of training up all the general membership to such a degree that they would be able to interrogate systems-----

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