Policing Authority

Justice Minister Helen McEntee has welcomed the Annual Report of the Policing Authority 2021. The report provides an account of the activities of the authority in its sixth year of operation. For the second year running, Covid-19 had a major influence on the work of the Policing Authority. The autho

Policing Authority member Bob Collins has been named as the watchdog's new chairperson. Mr Collins will succeed outgoing chairperson Josephine Feehily, the inaugural officeholder who oversaw the establishment of the Policing Authority in 2016.

The Policing Authority's chairperson, Josephine Feehily, will step down at the end of her term next month, according to reports. She is the inaugural chairperson of the Authority, having overseen its establishment at the start of 2016 as part of a programme of reform under former justice minister Fr

Drugs and gang crime expert Dr Johnny Connolly, a research fellow at University of Limerick School of Law, addressed a Policing Authority meeting this morning on community safety oversight. Dr Connolly, a member of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland, joined others on the panel for t

An Garda Síochána has come under sharp criticism from the Policing Authority in a new report which says the organisation is "repeatedly over-promising and under-delivering". The watchdog said the garda accepts third-party recommendations "quickly ... with little assessment as to the fe