Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

9:30 am

Mr. Peter Whelan:

There is a local intervention process. We have an informal process where if it is a very low level service level complaint we would give it back to the Garda and an inspector would deal with that but it would be in relation to the named garda in the complaint. If there is another garda where they find a wrongdoing they should be coming back to us with that.

Section 94.1 is an unsupervised investigation. That goes to a superintendent to investigate. Again, it would be a service level complaint but of a little higher level and it is in the legislation that we would do that. Then we have a tier above that again where we have a supervised investigation where we would supervise that investigation but in all cases we should know the identity of the garda. If there is any investigation that happens within An Garda Síochána that brings up another wrongdoing by a garda it should be coming back to us on that.

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