Hundreds of emergency calls to gardaí went unresponded to last evening in Dublin

MORE THAN 500 calls for help from the public to Dublin’s Garda central control centre had not been responded to at one point on Tuesday evening because there were not enough gardaí available, The Journal has learned.

Sources have said that this issue has developed as the amount of available gardaí is not matched with the level of demand for the service. Sources said that individual gardaí were recommending members of the public to attend garda stations themselves to make reports.A garda spokesperson refused to comment on the figure of 523 unresponded calls by Dublin gardaí but confirmed that there were incidents being held over on a regular basis.

“Calls are prioritised for response based on initial categorisations, additional information received which may increase or reduce the prioritisation, the availability of the most suitable resource to respond to the call and the immediate need or otherwise for a Garda response. At a public meeting this week Assistant Commissioner Angela Willis, who has responsibility for policing in Dublin, said the force was “down on numbers we would want to have.”

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