Written answers
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
Garda Deployment
9:00 pm
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the current numbers of gardaà in each Garda division and the corresponding number of Garda reserves for each division in tabular form and the number of gardaà stationed at Garda headquarters and at the Garda college in Templemore, County Tipperary. [16633/11]
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Garda authorities, that as of 31 May 2011, the latest date for which figures are readily available, the personnel strength of each Garda Division, including the Garda Reserve, and the strength of Garda Headquarters and the Garda College, was as set out in the following table.
| Division | Garda Strength | Reserve Strength |
| DMR South Central | 753 | 42 |
| DMR North Central | 674 | 27 |
| DMR North | 795 | 71 |
| DMR East | 461 | 19 |
| DMR South | 618 | 41 |
| DMR West | 786 | 50 |
| DMR Office | 58 | - |
| DMR Traffic | 156 | - |
| Kilkenny/Carlow | 312 | 23 |
| Wicklow | 348 | 15 |
| Laois / Offaly | 316 | 17 |
| Wexford | 278 | 22 |
| Tipperary | 383 | 25 |
| Cork City | 697 | 48 |
| Cork North | 308 | 18 |
| Cork West | 319 | 19 |
| Kerry | 333 | 11 |
| Limerick | 647 | 33 |
| Donegal | 462 | 22 |
| Cavan / Monaghan | 382 | 16 |
| Louth | 312 | 31 |
| Sligo / Leitrim | 324 | 17 |
| Clare | 317 | 13 |
| Mayo | 312 | 25 |
| Galway | 608 | 52 |
| Roscommon /Longford | 302 | 14 |
| Westmeath | 263 | 20 |
| Meath | 310 | 22 |
| Kildare | 324 | 23 |
| Waterford | 301 | 25 |
| Garda College | 140 | - |
| Garda Headquarters* | 1663 | - |
| TOTAL | 14,262 | 761 |
* Garda Headquarters includes the Garda Depot, Harcourt Square and Dublin Castle and covers such units as Special Detective Unit, National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Liaison and Protection, Garda National Drugs Unit, the Garda National Immigration Bureau and the Criminal Assets Bureau.
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