Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Oversight: Discussion
2:30 pm
Mr. Robert K. Olson:
Mostly they are separate. That is certainly my experience and Mr. Mark Toland mentioned the UK. In the US they are very separate. We have what we call citizen complaint review boards where citizens can go and make complaints and then they are investigated. They are all over the map. The two functions are clearly separate. I am not aware of any that not only investigates wrongdoing but comes in and makes some recommendations. They may make some minor recommendations to fix some minor problem but not in the context of what an inspectorate would be doing.
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