Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

Is the Minister amenable to tweaking the guidelines? I am a member of a joint policing committee and my experience is that it is entirely too clumsy. The committee comprises 23 public representatives and representatives of community organisations, which means that the last thing it has is a qualitative interchange with the senior gardaí present. With all due respect to the county managers and senior gardaí, their meeting is not likely to devise structures that will make the process more valuable in exercising civilian oversight of the quality of policing in local communities.

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