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 Finn:

If I might respond on the element of the checkpoints, it was not mandatory for people to do the checkpoints. The mandatory aspect was that it was mandatory for the person who was stopped to give the sample. That is where the word "mandatory" came from. There was not pressure on people to write down that all those checkpoints had been completed. In fact, over 40% of the checkpoints on our system are invalidated because they did not happen. That system was there. If a checkpoint was not done because a garda was on some other duty, such as escorting a child to safety, it was necessary to mark the checkpoint as being completed.

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