Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin
9:00 am
Mr. Michael O'Sullivan:
No. I would have to agree. I do not know why we needed to count the number of cars. They are not counted by the police services in Northern Ireland, Scotland, the United Kingdom or Canada. I could not find a rationale for it and in fact, having done checkpoints in my time, I would find it extremely difficult to try to perform a checkpoint and at the same time count the cars passing behind me.
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