Policing

An action plan to counter the threat of internal corruption in An Garda Síochána has been published by the government. The implementation plan sets out how the government will respond to the 34 recommendations of a Garda Inspectorate report published in March 2021.

Helen McEntee, the justice minister, will join a number of leading international experts later this month to discuss the oversight of national security in Ireland at a conference hosted by University of Galway's School of Law. Taking place on Friday 23 September 2022, the conference is being organis

Plans for a new District Garda HQ in Newcastle West, Co Limerick have been unveiled by justice minister Helen McEntee. Mrs McEntee was joined by Patrick O'Donovan, the minister of state with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, to make the announcement at the site of the proposed new stati

Northern Ireland’s High Court has refused an application for judicial review where a police constable argued that any misconduct that he committed in previous employment should not have come under the scrutiny of the PSNI or its code of ethics. The court found that the code applied to any serv

Police officers in England have reportedly been told to reveal to their bosses the identities of news reporters. The measure, already used by some police forces, follows guidance from the College of Policing and was only discovered by accident, The Guardian reports.

An Garda Síochána is continuing to struggle with a three-year backlog of seized electronic devices, according to a new report. The Policing Authority's assessment of policing performance in the first half of 2022 says there is "enduring concern" over the backlog and its impact on "the

Dr Vicky Conway, an accomplished legal academic and one of Ireland's foremost researchers on policing, has passed away. In a short statement this morning, the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU) said: "We are terribly sad to have to share the passing of our colleague Vicky C

The Policing Authority has commissioned new research into the experience and perceptions of policing within diverse and minority communities in Ireland. Dr Vicky Conway, an associate professor at DCU School of Law and Government and an expert on policing, will carry out the research after being awar

Travellers are discriminated against by gardaí and the judiciary, according to a study. Researchers concluded that members of the ethnic minority group are “over policed as suspects and under policed as victims”.

The indiscriminate collection of mobile phone data will only be allowed where a judge agrees there are national security grounds to do so, under new legislation which follows a successful EU court challenge brought by convicted murderer Graham Dwyer. The Department of Justice yesterday published the

A forthcoming conference will bring together experts to discuss police custody in Ireland for the first time. Taking place in Blackhall Place on 29 and 30 September 2022, the conference will hear from gardaí, members of the Garda Inspectorate and the Policing Authority, representatives of NGO

A group of young men, known as the "Derry Four", were coerced into confessing to the murder of a soldier in 1979, an investigation by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland has concluded. The watchdog investigated on the foot of complaints from the men, three of whom were aged 17 at the time and

Emergency legislation is to be brought forward by ministers to provide for a continued legal basis for gardaí to present cases in the District Court on behalf of their colleagues. The move comes after the High Court ruled last week that members of An Garda Síochána only have a r

The Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland is considering whether to launch an investigation into the use of strip-searches against dozens of under-18s last year. A recent investigation by The Detail revealed that PSNI officers strip-searched children and young people under the age of 1

Emergency legislation could be introduced to give non-prosecuting gardaí a right of audience before the District Court to address the "turmoil" caused by a recent High Court ruling, the chair of the Oireachtas justice committee has suggested. Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger ruled this week that