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Garda Deployment

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 July 2018

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Questions (1155)

Denise Mitchell

Question:

1155. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to the criminal assets bureau by rank in the Dublin metropolitan region north, in each of the years since 2009 to date in 2018, in tabular form. [34950/18]

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As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of personnel and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. Garda management keeps this distribution under review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities to ensure optimum use is made of the resources.

For the Deputy's information the following table, received from the Garda authorities, presents the latest data for the national specialist units which form Garda Special Crime Operations. It is important to note that these are national units which support the work of the 28 Garda Divisions across the Country and are consequently not broken down by Division.

I am informed by the Commissioner that the Special Detective Unit (SDU) is responsible for the investigation of threats to state security and the monitoring of persons who pose a threat to the security of the State on both national and international fronts. The Unit also provides security for visiting VIPs, cash in transit movements and armed response and is the operational wing of the Witness Security Programme. The highly trained and equipped specialist intervention unit, the Emergency Response Unit, is also part of SDU.

I am advised by the Commissioner that for security and operational reasons the strength of the SDU, ERU, Regional Support Units and the Special Tactics and Operational Command Unit cannot be provided.

Strength of Garda Special Crime Operations 31 May 2018

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CR

DC

AC

CS

SU

IN

SG

GD

TOTAL

Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau

0

0

0

1

3

2

20

88

114

Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau

0

0

0

0

0

1

5

17

23

Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (formerly Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation)

0

0

0

1

2

2

16

47

68

Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation

0

0

0

1

3

0

15

62

81

Garda National Protective Services Bureau

0

0

0

0

3

2

17

41

63

Garda National Technical Bureau

0

0

0

0

1

2

16

49

68

Criminal Assets Bureau

0

0

0

1

1

0

9

31

42

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