Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion
10:30 am
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
If the Garda Síochána is in a vacuum of information or if it stands still in the context of information it has previously received and something subsequently happens that person, unless the Garda Síochána is given the follow-through of information, how can the Garda be expected to upgrade a particular crime for what has happened medically? I am not sure whether the witnesses think there should be an obligation, not on the Garda Síochána but on the flipside such as the public health system, whereby if people there believe a previous incident was the cause of a changed pathological event, they then should have a mandatory reporting mechanism back to the Garda Síochána.
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