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:

We named them in the full report. It is not in the executive summary which the committee received. We do not particularly like naming and shaming. However, we felt it was so significant in this case that we did.

The issue of compliance is one for the Garda Commissioner. Again, as I said earlier, the most important point is that those 105 cases are investigated and progressed because there could be images of a child who needs to be rescued today. The image points the Garda to an address. It needs to go to that address to see if that child potentially is at it and needs rescuing. It is an important piece of work.

In the future, all of these cases will go to the protective services unit. At the moment, they go to a division which allocates them to a variety of different people who may have had no training in how to investigate that type of crime.

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