Top cop Martin Callinan is not budging despite the damning findings of a probe into penalty point abuse by officers.
Ministers have rallied around the Garda Commissioner insisting he has their full confidence.
A source within the force said: “He is sticking this through. He is doing it for the other members of the force who are putting their lives on the line every day.”
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore said Mr Callinan has his backing.
Education Minister Ruairi Quinn and Jobs Minister Richard Bruton are also behind him. Mr Quinn said: “We have every confidence – and somebody could say we have a part of the Garda Siochana system that isn’t working satisfactorily, they’ve conducted a report into it and now they’re going to implement changes.
“That’s the action of somebody who’s very confident in their own position.” A report into the penalty points system attacked management after finding “no meaningful evidence” of good supervision of it.
The inspectorate was set up to scrutinise overall practices and policing within the force and does not have the power to investigate alleged wrongdoing by individual officers. A top Garda source said Commissioner Callinan would not be going and will stick with it for the 12,999 members.
Mr Gilmore said he takes the findings of the report very seriously and would implement radical reforms to the system.
Meanwhile, it has emerged barrister Sean Guerin has not yet made contact with Sgt Maurice McCabe three weeks after he was brought in to investigate allegations by the garda.
Mr Guerin was appointed by Enda Kenny to probe allegations by Mr McCabe that murders, sexual assaults and abductions were not investigated properly.
SOURCE-IRISH MIRROR
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