4,000 extra guards=2,000 to 3,000 extra office jobs

[patslatt]

In Britain,about 35 to 40% of police administration jobs are civilianised. Not so in Ireland,where the figure is a miserable 10% or so according to an RTE Radio interview. Garda only HR and IT managers are typical! This indicates a radical reorganisation of the force is long overdue.

When the government recruits an extra 4,000 guards,how long will it be before most of them are siphoned off to become admin staff? And what is the extra cost compared to civilians of garda only admin staff, with high salaries and generous pensions meant to compensate for dangerous street level policing,not filling out forms?

[Kev408]

Should we be looking to Britain as a yardstick for how our Gardai operate? Why would we do that when the British police are notoriously corrupt. We already inherited the judicial system from Britain and look at the state of that!

I agree that our Gardai are swamped doing clerical duties but I would be looking to a successful police force for ours to emulate. New York turned their appalling crime rate around. What did they do right?