Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion

10:30 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

This was our difficulty, in that we should have reverted to Dr. Singh and asked him whether he was happy to sign off on it. That was what was unearthed at our Policing Authority meeting. When we subsequently met the Policing Authority, it asked us to sit down with the analysts and achieve consistency in how we classified these crimes. We sat down together and, as Dr. Singh articulated, we agreed a process on how to do that. In addition, the Policing Authority asked us to undertake a peer review, which we are in the process of doing.