Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

I think it is everywhere. The reality of the culture, in which there are several sub-cultures, is that traditionally we have always been focused on waiting for a crime to happen and then investigating it. We do a pretty good job of that. We are good at crisis management and operational decisions. We have changed, with this shift in culture, to ensure a focus on prevention. This is in everything from road traffic all the way through to the likes of the Garda national protective services bureau and the domestic violence assessment tool that we spoke about.

We are trying to shift to that culture. We are trying to make it valued in An Garda Síochána, that our job, in the first place, is to prevent crime from happening. When it does happen we are there, we investigate the crime professionally and see it all the way through the courts system.