Seanad debates
Thursday, 3 April 2003
Crime Levels: Statements.
There is an excellent training college in Templemore and a high degree of acceptance of the Garda by the community. Like Senator Maurice Hayes, I look forward to closer co-operation and interaction between the police forces on this island. He was a member of the Patten commission and author of the Patten report. I hope it will shortly lead to the breakthrough of having almost complete cross-community support, involvement and participation in the police force in the North. It was a superb report and a superb contribution by a public servant and his colleagues to policing not only in Northern Ireland but also elsewhere. That said, I am quite happy with the Minister's choice of a Garda inspectorate rather than an ombudsman.
No comments