Reportedly according to an internal computer system designed to monitor emergency calls, a number of calls were cancelled by gardai last year. According to the report an internal enquiry has been launched but focuses only on 3000 calls concerning domestic abuse though an unspecified number of calls relating to other crimes were cancelled.
Reportedly as part of the enquiry, superintendants or inspectors were asked to identify gardai responsible for taking the cancelled 999 calls, and callers about domestic abuse were contacted to ascertain gardai response ahead of the garda commissioner’s appearance before the policing authority on Thursday.