Of course nothing is going to happen to the corrupt pigs in this country. If you want to be untouchable, become a politician or a pig.
>They have been told that no further action will be taken and that the case is now closed.
>It is understood that the no prosecution direction was on phase one of the probe and involved interactions that many people had with one former senior member of the gardaí.
>A second phase of the investigation is focused on interactions between individual gardaí and their use of discretion in their work in road policing matters. It’s understood that probe also involves a large number of members of the public, and over 100 gardaí have been interviewed.
>Multiple sources have said that the decision to not prosecute was taken after a lengthy file was sent to the DPP.
>It is understood that garda investigators were seeking a charge of obstruction of justice in some of the cases. However the DPP directed that no prosecution was possible as there was no evidence to support such an allegation.
Looks like they’re not all out of the woods yet.
>Sources have also indicated that a recent directive sent by Garda management to all gardaí is critical to the decision – given that there was no previous HQ directive advising on the process and protocol associated with cancelling penalty point allegations.
It’s mad that there was no direction from HQ on something like that up to now. It’s not very hard to see why Gardaí were pissed off over being suspended for not following a process if there wasn’t one.
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Move along, nothing to see here
Of course nothing is going to happen to the corrupt pigs in this country. If you want to be untouchable, become a politician or a pig.
>They have been told that no further action will be taken and that the case is now closed.
>It is understood that the no prosecution direction was on phase one of the probe and involved interactions that many people had with one former senior member of the gardaí.
>A second phase of the investigation is focused on interactions between individual gardaí and their use of discretion in their work in road policing matters. It’s understood that probe also involves a large number of members of the public, and over 100 gardaí have been interviewed.
>Multiple sources have said that the decision to not prosecute was taken after a lengthy file was sent to the DPP.
>It is understood that garda investigators were seeking a charge of obstruction of justice in some of the cases. However the DPP directed that no prosecution was possible as there was no evidence to support such an allegation.
Looks like they’re not all out of the woods yet.
>Sources have also indicated that a recent directive sent by Garda management to all gardaí is critical to the decision – given that there was no previous HQ directive advising on the process and protocol associated with cancelling penalty point allegations.
It’s mad that there was no direction from HQ on something like that up to now. It’s not very hard to see why Gardaí were pissed off over being suspended for not following a process if there wasn’t one.
I’m shocked