New Policing Model Is ‘Unmitigated Disaster’ Breaking Links Between Gardaí and Communities, Garda Bodies Warn

New policing model is ‘unmitigated disaster’ breaking links between gardaí and communities, garda bodies warn

Garda representative groups have told the Oireachtas that the new policing model is an “unmitigated disaster” which is breaking links between gardaí and communities.

Policing model ‘an unmitigated disaster and unfit for purpose’

The Operational Policing Model (OPM), in place since 2019, has been an ‘unmitigated disaster and is not fit for purpose’, the Oireachtas Justice Committee will be told today. The OPM was introduced as part of the Government’s reform programme, titled ‘A Policing Service for Our Future’, which emerged from the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. Both the Garda Representative Association (GRA) and the Association of Garda Sergeants an…