The number of gardaí serving in roads-policing units has fallen to its lowest level since 2017. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Timesserving in roads-policing units has fallen to its lowest level since 2017, but the Garda Commissioner said this reflects a change in the nature of policing and not indicate an absence of commitment tosaid the number of trained road policing officers was currently 623, but he expressed the hope it would reach 700 by the end of the year.
‘Cyclists are just lumped in with general traffic’: Change is coming for Dublin’s dangerous junctionsEvery county has seen their roads policing force depleted over the past 15 years with the numbers falling by more than 50 per cent in some instances. He said there had been “a huge increase in just the variety of crimes reported to us” and he added there was a “very different policing scenario” to 2009″.
These include the “30 minutes of high visibility roads policing duty during every uniform tour of duty” and an increased deployment of technology, including speed cameras. Mr Harris said there was a competition for new allocations to Roads Policing Units in the eastern, northwestern and southern regions, adding “allocations to Roads Policing Units in the Dublin region have already commenced from an existing panel”.
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