Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Declan Daly:

On training, our specialist training is international, from the FBI to Europol. All our staff are trained internationally, they go to Germany for ten days on a specialist training course. They are trained to a very high standard and pass it down. We also have a civilian employee who tracks all our cases. We have sought to take all the administrative functions from detectives so that they are doing what they ought to be which is detecting crime, and using those civilian resources for administrative purposes and tracking not only our own investigations but all online investigations and we can be sure that nothing is falling through cracks, such as the examples which the Chairman gave. That resource has been in place since January 2017.