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Frontline Garda representatives are calling on the Garda Commissioner and the Minister for Justice to conduct a Brexit audit of all “air, sea and land” crossing points between Ireland and the UK.
The review is intended to ensure that Garda members operating at entry and exit points between the UK and the EU have “full resources” to meet the demands likely to be placed on them.
The proposal is being made by the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Garda Representatives Association (GRA), the staff corps for the Gardai base.
The powerful CEC is the national governing body of the GRA and is made up of representatives from each of the Garda divisions, along with top GRA officers.
The proposal is contained in a motion that will be presented to delegates on the provisional agenda for the GRA’s two-day annual conference, beginning Tuesday.
The conference, delayed from May due to the Covid-19 pandemic, takes place entirely online without a physical meeting of any official or delegate.
The CEC motion states: “With the start of Brexit, the Conference asks the Garda Commissioner and the Minister of Justice and Equality to organize the inspection and examination of all air, sea and land crossing points into the Kingdom. United, which will now act as entry and exit points for the European Union and ensure that they have all the necessary resources to meet the demands that will be placed on the members of An Garda Síochána ”.
There is no mention of how the inspection would be carried out and who would carry it out, which may be part of the discussion on the motion.
The examination would cover not only the northern and southern land border, but all points of entry and exit by air and sea between Ireland and Great Britain.
Delegates from the border region are also filing a motion highlighting resource issues.
A motion from the Cavan / Monaghan branch reads: “That Conference asks the Garda Commissioner, given the unique law enforcement demands in the border region, to provide adequate resources to border divisions, including upgrading lodging technology, fleet and communications of information to an adequate modern standard ”.
Delegates from the Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) South Central have also raised resource concerns, asking the conference to demand that the government provide “an urgent increase” to the Garda budget.
In a separate motion on resources, the CEC calls on the government and the Office of Public Works to “immediately and substantially advance” the promised construction of new Garda stations in Clonmel, Sligo and Macroom, which it said was contained in the Public Private Partnership Program.
Dublin South Central is raising the issue of child abuse imagery and online readiness, where delegates ask the commissioner to oversee the implementation of an online child exploitation unit in every Garda division in the state.
Colleagues at the DMR East branch have highlighted online-enabled crimes, asking the commissioner to develop and introduce an ongoing training module for all members to address the investigation of cyberspace-related crimes, “particularly bullying and harassment. Cyberbullying, “to be delivered through ongoing classroom professional development training.
The Kerry branch asks the commissioner to continue to use the Garda Training College in Templemore as the “sole primary education and training center” for An Garda Síochána and to ensure that all new recruits receive the same training and serve the same term. trial before they become sworn members.
There are also motions regarding the use of force and supervision of the garda.
Delegates in Donegal are calling for an investigation or review to be conducted of circumstances where a member uses force to be guided by the perspective of a reasonable officer “on the scene” rather than a “20/20 vision in retrospective “.
The DMR South Central branch calls on the Government to end the duplication of functions of the Garda Police and Inspectorate Authority and to make provisions for “Abolition of the Inspectorate” and allocate its resources to the Garda budget.
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