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Tracking these suspects relies heavily on the application of technical surveillance, such as audio/visual devices and telephone tapping. [ 3 ] The Counter-Terrorism International unit also manage their own informants via the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) system, administered by Garda HQ.
The Patten Report recommended that a programme of long-term personnel exchanges should be established between the Garda Síochána and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). This recommendation was enacted in 2002 by an Inter-Governmental Agreement on Policing Cooperation, which set the basis for the exchange of officers between the two ...
The Civic Guard was formed by the Provisional Government in February 1922 to take over the responsibility of policing the fledgling Irish Free State.. The Garda Síochána (Temporary Provisions) Act 1923 enacted after the creation of the Irish Free State on 8 August 1923, [4] provided for the creation of "a force of police to be called and known as 'The Garda Síochána ' ".
The Garda NSU operates a small number of "Ghost Teams" or "Ghost Units", which conduct "Black bag operations", whereby a team of officers will break into a property upon possession of a warrant and plant bugs to gather intelligence or evidence against suspected serious criminals, terrorists or hostile spies without their knowledge, and without leaving a trace (hence the name "Ghost Team"). [6]
The Emergency Response Unit (ERU) (Irish: Aonad Práinnfhreagartha) is the police tactical unit of the Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police and security service. The unit was a section of the forces' Special Detective Unit (SDU), under the Crime and Security Branch (CSB) [3] until 2017, when the Special Tactics and Operational Command was created to take over its operational duties ...
The Chief Constable of Northern Ireland is the third-highest paid police officer in the UK (after the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police). [21] The current chief constable is Jon Boutcher , who was appointed on an interim basis after the resignation of Simon Bryne in September 2023 and successful in being officially ...
PULSE (contrived acronym for "Police Using Leading Systems Effectively") is a computer system used by An Garda Síochána, the police force of the Republic of Ireland.The system was introduced in November 1999.
Heavily armed NBCI detectives conduct a stop-and-search on a drug gang suspect in Limerick City (see Limerick feud). The Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (GNBCI) (Irish: An Biúró Náisiúnta um Imscrúdú Coiriúil) - formerly known as the Central Detective Unit (CDU) (Irish: An Príomhaonad Bleachtaireachta) - is the main national criminal investigative branch of the Garda ...