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AN GARDA SÍOCHÁNA has put out to tender a contract worth an estimated €100,000 for “media skills training”.
They want members trained in the “skills to be able to conduct media interviews” and for dealing “with difficult and sustained questioning”.
The aim of the contract is to initially train 30-40 personnel within An Garda Síochána in the first year, with increased numbers in subsequent years.
An Garda Síochána previously paid €113,688 to PR firm Communications Clinic over two-and-a-half years for media training up to March 2017. This followed a procurement process initiated by the gardaí.
In this new invitation to tender, An Garda Síochána said: “Telling the public via the media about how we prevent and tackle crime is of critical importance in building and maintaining that support and trust.”
It said its officers who appear in the media “must be in a position to provide clear and consistent information to the public and demonstrate their and the organisation’s professionalism, skills and expertise”.
The gardaí’s communication strategy will see a greater range of spokespeople being made available to the media from across the organisation.
To achieve this aim, it will require a media training programme for officers and managers that will be held in Garda HQ in the Phoenix Park in Dublin or, on occasion, at the Garda College in Templemore.
Participants in the programme will perform a “number of mock radio and TV interviews based on relevant scenarios” and undertake further interviews following feedback.
From time to time, the gardaí said it will need “ongoing support” to prepare for specific interviews for which an hour rate would apply.
The deadline to respond to the tender contract – valid for one year – is 19 February.
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Great, 84 new real estate agents.
I’ll cross my fingers for them as I believe the Central Bank just strangled their golden goose.
The main problem we have is the amount of money being taken out of our economy to service a debt run up by irresponsible banks, both here and abroad. Until that problem is tackled there just isn’t enough money in our economy for real sustained growth for indigenous businesses. I’ve only stayed in business because I did not have huge loans to service and I was able to keep my overheads low. Ive seen plenty of good businesses go under because they can no longer sustain the overheads imposed by landlords & councils that still work on tiger prices.
Michael,
The banks were less than half the problem. The collapse of govt revenue and inability to cut the servicing of public services quickly to match revenue was just as big a problem
That’s true James.
Isn’t that it will “beat all predictions” a prediction, meaning that it can never actually beat all predictions?
Another flash in the pan.
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