Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion
10:10 am
Ms Margaret Tumelty:
There are some areas in terms of the targets for specific crimes. While Operation Thor in the area of burglary and robbery was very successful, there has been a rise in the incidence of assault. That is an area now on which there will be a particular focus in the plan for next year. Data is a massive area as well. To return to the comments about the Shannon report, while the specific 17 recommendations might not be detailed they are encompassed in targets for next year. Data quality is a massive focus for next year's plan in terms of the ethnic profiling, the ability to disaggregate data, not just relating to children but also relating to the areas of sexual violence and domestic violence, and looking at the nuts and bolts mechanistic stuff in respect of PULSE as well as looking at the bigger stage in terms of governance and stewardship, to ensure there is larger thinking about data in terms of the cultural attitude towards it and the value it has within the organisation to inform evidence based decision making in resource deployment.
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