Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner

9:00 am

Mr. Drew Harris:

I run a large organisation. It is a complex organisation and it deals with all sorts of issues. A huge continuum of demand comes in through the door. One is always going to see things one thinks are not right or need to be improved on. One can never get to an end point with such a complex business where one thinks one's work is done. That is not going to happen. We are on a constant cycle of improvement. I want to emphasise that where we identify something, we take actions to deal with it and to ameliorate the problem and then move on from that. Probably, that is what I have seen. I do not want to highlight any particular area because things I have seen are not things I have discovered. They are things that have come up through the management processes.

Things have come up through the senior leadership team at meetings we have had and been brought to my attention. Like any other organisation, we are identifying what we need to do, some of which is for the risk management process, and where we need to go next. We have talked about data quality which is well on the agenda. We have talked about the digitisation of policing and that is well on the agenda also.

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