Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion
Mr. Michael Finn:
I will address that issue. In fact, the DMR will be impacted by the changes, although not structurally. The divisions will not be joined up to make one bigger one but we will be introducing the new model there in terms of having our administrative units at divisional level, as well as our crime superintendents and governance superintendents. That will apply throughout the country, including the DMR. One of the divisions where that was piloted was the DMR.
In terms of DMR north and DMR south, one of the issues emerging from our restructuring process is that there may be capabilities that can be merged across the DMR itself because it is a relatively small geographic area. Events management, for example, could be shared across a number of divisions. We are looking at that now in terms of how we roll out the entire model.
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