Committee Reports::Report No. 07 - Recruitment and Training in the Garda Síochána::29 May, 1985::Appendix

APPENDIX F

LIST OF REPORTS PUBLISHED BY THE SELECT COMMITTEE


1.

Neighbourhood Watch as a Scheme for Community Involvement in Policing - 27th March 1984.

2.

The role of Officers of Customs and Excise in controlling the supply of illegal drugs - 3rd July 1984.

3.

The decriminalisation of certain offences under the Vagrancy Acts - 17th October 1984.

4.

Controls on the private security industry - 30th October 1984.

5.

Report on a visit to Scotland Yard - 30th October 1984.

6.

Confiscation of assets illegally acquired through drug trafficking - 18th January 1985.

FOREWORD

I am pleased to have the honour, on behalf of my colleagues on the Select Committee, to present this Report to Dail Eireann.


The Committee considered that Garda recruitment and training was a very important topic and one which needed to be examined. The more we considered the matter the more convinced we were of the need for an overhaul of the recruitment procedures and for a radical alteration in the approach to training at all levels in the Garda Siochana.


The need to carry out a fundamental re-appraisal of the role of the Garda Siochana became increasingly obvious as our examination into recruitment and training proceeded. The Committee will now proceed to examine the role of the Garda Siochana in a modern, changing society. When that study is completed, we may have another look at the role and functions of training in the Force.


Michael Woods T.D.


Chairman.


5 June, 1985.