Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Toland:

What I would say is that when we conducted the visit, there were an insufficient number of Garda members assigned to those duties. We met a senior member of the national unit in November 2017 who informed us that a significant number of additional gardaí had been appointed into that national unit and had been deployed to things such as victim identification, which is looking at an image that the Garda receives to see if it can identify a child in Ireland that might be at risk. The Garda now have more members who are proactively on the Internet trying to deal with those who are seeking to groom children and those who are seeking to share indecent images with other abusers.

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