Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

In terms of a MAT checkpoint, an inspector above would schedule MAT checkpoints. He or she fills out an authorisation to say, "You have to do ten checkpoints over the next period," or whatever. They get put on our PULSE as an incident that needs to be done. It is recorded on a PULSE system. After the checkpoint is completed the member would come back. He or she may very well ring our call centre in Castlebar from the scene, as happens in cases, and he or she can update that. As I explained earlier on, if it was a Friday night or a very busy occasion, he or she may be unable to do that on the day so it could be the following day before it happens.

If there are a number of people at the checkpoint, and there might be a sergeant in charge, but if the sergeant is out there with a number of people, and sometimes we conduct super checkpoints on the motorways, it is a big grouping-----

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