Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate

9:30 am

Mr. Robert K. Olson:

They want that trust but they are more concerned about keeping it in the sense of what they do. This is why a lot of the things that have cropped up here over the past few years are incidents where it was not public. It was not that they did not want to deal with it and, believe me, they worry about trust. For the first time in a long time, people are starting to question some things so they are very worried about it. They want to have a good police force. We talked to these folks. They are looking for it. The gardaí on the street are doing the best they can with what they have and how they are being governed and administered. They know the waste that is there. There is a fear of exposure and headlines, so there is a tendency to get it fixed but not to have it raised to the surface. I do not know if I am making sense here but that is in the culture. They fix it and worry about it but they do not want to see it pop up in front.

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