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:

There was a lot of robust discussion within the organisation on the best way to examine and understand the potential level of misclassification. Towards the end of that period, one of the analysts put together what I thought was a very good approach to clarifying our crime-counting rules in respect of identifying homicides. That was then applied to the 41 cases. That is how we came to the final report on the 12.