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14/03/2012
Garda Opens Ranks To PSNI Officers
Senior position within An Garda Siochåna will be open to members of the PSNI for the first time.
Minister for justice Alan Shatter has said he “very much welcomes” putting this radical new system in place.
Until now only serving Garda were eligible to apply for more senior positions.
The new, more open recruitment system was provided for in the Inter-Governmental Agreement on Policing Co-operation that was signed a decade ago. It resulted from recommendations in the Patten report on policing in the North.
The posts could appeal to PSNI officers as pay and expenses are higher in the south.
There have been recent exchange programmes between the two forces, which often had members of each working for a short time with the other.
The new scheme is the first time PSNI officers could resign from Northern posts to take up a position in the South.
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Minister for justice Alan Shatter has said he “very much welcomes” putting this radical new system in place.
Until now only serving Garda were eligible to apply for more senior positions.
The new, more open recruitment system was provided for in the Inter-Governmental Agreement on Policing Co-operation that was signed a decade ago. It resulted from recommendations in the Patten report on policing in the North.
The posts could appeal to PSNI officers as pay and expenses are higher in the south.
There have been recent exchange programmes between the two forces, which often had members of each working for a short time with the other.
The new scheme is the first time PSNI officers could resign from Northern posts to take up a position in the South.
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