Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Many of the policing plans - I have a number of them here - mention performance indicators in which the lead responsibility or process owner around divisions and regions were related to breath tests. For example, in one policing plan the number of MAT checkpoints and the number of over-the-limit arrests made in Waterford in 2012 are outlined. In Dublin metropolitan region, DMR, south in 2012, the number of persons breath-tested and the number of MAT checkpoints performed are outlined. For Tipperary in 2012, the continued use of MAT checkpoints is referenced. For DMR north central, the number of MAT checkpoints, the number of persons breathalysed at MAT checkpoints and the number of arrests as a result are outlined. These data were detailed in the policing plans, and part of this is mentioned in the assistant commissioner's report. The data are listed as actual performance indicators. How are they incorporated in terms of performance management? We have the correspondence stating there was no performance management regarding breath tests or MAT checkpoints but in most of the policing plans, there is mention of the number of MAT checkpoints and the number of breath tests performed. It looks like a contradiction but perhaps the witnesses could clarify it. There is a lead responsibility. The policing plans mention chief superintendents and superintendents. How are those performance indicators incorporated at that level?