Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion

10:30 am

Dr. Gurchand Singh:

Yes. With regard to one of my recommendations at that stage, I said we had two pieces of information, the PULSE record and the State Pathologist's reports, but we were missing a very important element - the investigation file. The investigation file can help us to begin to understand the classification. We needed three bits of information to be assured that what we had on the PULSE system was correct. It was at that stage that I made a suggestion that we review the cases to satisfy ourselves that the classification was correct. At that stage it was agreed that a group would be put together to do this.

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