IRELAND
Irish Independent
[Garda Inspectorate reports]
By Michael Brennan Deputy Political Editor
Friday February 03 2012
GARDA Commissioner Martin Callinan said yesterday that the force had given “huge attention” to improving its handling of child sexual abuse investigations in the wake of a critical report.
He was speaking after a Garda Inspectorate report found fault with the gardai for under-reporting child sexual abuse allegations in its crime statistics and for lacking specialist child abuse investigators.
But Com. Callinan said the force had drawn up a new policy on child sexual abuse investigations since it had received the draft report in 2010.
“All of the areas which have been identified in the report have received huge attention since,” he said.
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