John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 375: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda stations that do not have PULSE; the plans he has to install it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42744/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Garda authorities that the PULSE system is available at 319 Garda Stations including all Divisional, District Headquarters and 24 hour stations. The system is also available at a further 23 networked locations. In total all these locations account for over 85% of incidents. The extension of the PULSE network to the remaining 384 Garda stations is reviewed on an ongoing basis by Garda management and additional stations are added to the network on a case by case basis.

The Deputy will be aware that the Garda Information Services Centre (GISC), which is based in Castlebar, allows Gardaí, who would otherwise have to return to their station to input or update incident data, to log the information over the telephone with the GISC, thus releasing Garda resources for visible, frontline policing across our communities.