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THE CHAIR OF an expert group tasked with defining the development and future of the gardaí has invited the public to share their ideas.
Chairperson Kathleen O’Toole will lead a group of academics, legal experts, consultants, public servants and human rights advocates.
The Commission on the Future of Policing will look at ways of reforming An Garda Síochana over the next fifteen months, publishing their recommendations on a ‘rolling basis’.
O’Toole, the Chief of the Seattle Police Department, said today that the commission wouldn’t approach reform ”through the prism of scandal and accusation”, but instead, look at it “in a strategic way that will allow us to examine the fundamentals of and challenges facing Irish policing”.
She also had a strong message for the public:
To the community, this is YOUR commission. More importantly this is YOUR police service. A community’s trust, respect, engagement and support of its police are, without question, essential to modern, effective, and ethical policing.
“The foundation for achieving community trust must be built on transparency. I pledge to you that our process will be a highly visible, transparent endeavour.
In return, I ask for your engagement and contributions to the process. I promise to you that we will listen. I ask that you join us at community meetings, if you are able.
We will establish electronic means of communicating with us, and I ask that you use them. I ask for your thoughts, your frustrations, your experiences, and your ideas.
She also said that this work was for members of An Garda Síochána.
She said that the challenges faced by Ireland’s police force was the same problems in other corners of the world: drugs and organised crime; changing societies and communities; limited resources; or addressing terrorist threats.
As well as the Commission on the Future of Policing, a Disclosures Tribunal into the garda whistleblower controversies is ongoing.
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FOR PEAT SAKE!
Roll on the eco warriors complaining about the erosion of our natural resources etc.
Is that not what eco warriors do though?
I say burn the lot. Then when there’s nothing left, out kids can weep into the ashes!
Loadsamoney!
I suppose looking ahead and seeing that massive swathes of habitat will disappear and not seeing that as a good thing is the alternative?
Fairly crap returns for a company with 77,000 hectares
I thought it was good for a company that has a very small time frame every year to harvest.
It has been to asked, what does a dry summer yield then?
Er, lots of smiles? :)
Er that don’t answer it for me. :-)
Pity that they burn all that peat in the power stations. Something not right about that
Did the forget about the peat, when they were chasing the Gov to become board na Water
I’d say the board had a good aul moan. ;-/
Well at least they’re scooping out the middle of Ireland and flogging it to the UK for their gardens and all that will be left is a great big brown swimming pool for further Irish heatwaves and bog snorkeling. They should have to subsidise compulsory swimming lessons on the national curriculum in exchange for the turf.
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