Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion

10:30 am

Dr. Gurchand Singh:

The issues were raised with us by the CSO. When they were raised, we did have a look at the internal system and began to identify some of the problems on the system. To me, the roads policing side of the issue has always been slightly different from the homicide aspect. Many of the homicides were already on the system. It is not that they were misclassified per sebut how they had been classified. They were being obscured and we began to identify them. I went into the meeting on that date with the assumption that the database had been rectified. However, I was notified subsequently that some of the changes still had to be made. In the process of the making the changes some other issues began to rise. Therefore, we needed to ensure the changes were made subsequently.