Other reports
GSOC Statement: investigation into death of Mr George Nkencho
Statement by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission regarding its investigation into the death of Mr. George Nkencho. 19 June 2023.
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Statement GSOC Nkencho 190623 |
679.18 KB | 19 Jun 2023 |
Organisational Review of GSOC – May 2023
The Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill, is set to be enacted later in 2023, and commenced in early 2024.
Parts 5 and 6 of the Bill provide for significant reform of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), replacing it with a new Office of the Police Ombudsman, with both expanded powers and enhanced institutional independence. This includes the relaunch of the agency with, for the first time, its own, independent, Oireachtas vote, a CEO who will be the Accounting Officer answerable directly to the Houses of the Oireachtas, and an Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman replacing the present three-person Commission.
Since the publication of the draft bill in April 2021, organisational transition of GSOC to a new reformed institution has been a primary strategic focus of GSOC, in order to put all the practical governance, process and inter-agency systems in place to ensure that the new Office of the Police Ombudsman will be ready to fulfil its new statutory remit.
This has involved sustained engagement with multiple agencies and departments, including the Department of Justice, An Garda Síochána, the National Shared Services Office, the Department of Finance and DPER.
A core priority of this work has been to ensure adequate resourcing of the new agency. In order to better identify the new Ombudsman’s needs, GSOC commissioned an external Organisational Review of GSOC. This review was carried out by Grant Thornton, and was completed in May 2023.
Grant Thornton’s Organisational Review report provides an overview of the scale and detail of resourcing the new Office of the Police Ombudsman will likely need. GSOC is using this review as to underpin a business case to the Department of Justice and DPER for resourcing of the new agency. This business case will take on an iterative and phased approach, starting with the agency’s ‘Day 1’ requirements, right through to its longer-term institutional needs as the new agency begins to roll out its work.
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Organisational Review of GSOC May 2023 |
3.47 MB | 16 Aug 2023 |
Observations on Heads 5 and 6 of the Scheme of the PSCS Bill
GSOC's observations on the proposed provisions for the future operation and functions of a reformed policing Ombudsman, as contained in Heads 5 and 6 of the General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill. Published 4 December 2021.
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GSOC Observations PSCS Bill 041221 |
1.09 MB | 4 Dec 2021 |
GSOC Submission on Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021
GSOC's submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on pre-legislative scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021. Submitted July 2021.
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GSOC Submission to Joint Committee FPERT on Protected Disclosures (Amendment) BillGSOC submission to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on pre legislative scrutiny of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill |
44.54 KB | 17 Dec 2021 |
GSOC submission to the C.F.P.I.
The detailed submission draws on GSOC’s experience of the garda oversight environment over the past decade to address the Commission on the Future of Policing’s specific terms of reference. It also sets out changes which GSOC believes are necessary to improve public confidence in police oversight.
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GSOC Submission to the Commission on the Future of Policing In Ireland 17012018 |
1.02 MB | 5 Feb 2018 |
GSOC proposal on Legislative Change
In a detailed submission to the Department of Justice and Equality, GSOC has set out proposals for legislative change, recommending a new stand-alone piece of legislation rather than amendments to current legislation.
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GSOC Proposal for Legislative Change Dec 2017GSOC Proposal for Legislative Change Dec 2017 |
1.58 MB | 19 Jan 2018 |
Investigation by Mark Connaughton SC
September 2014.
Report by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission following fact-finding investigation into possible disclosure of confidential information. This report gives detail from the fact-finding investigation by Mark Connaughton SC into the possible disclosure of confidential information, following the appearance of an article in The Sunday Times in February 2013.
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Connaughton InvestigationReport by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission following its fact-finding investigation into possible disclosure of confidential information. |
642.23 KB | 24 Sep 2014 |
Informant-handling procedures within the Garda Síochána
May 2013.
Special Report to the Minister for Justice and Equality, in relation to informant-handling procedures within the Garda Síochána. As part of an investigation concluded in December 2012, matters relating to the implementation and operation of informant-handling procedures by the Garda Síochána came to the notice of GSOC, the gravity of which the Ombudsman Commission believed merited sending a Special Report, under section 80(5) of the 2005 Act, to the Minister.
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Report Section 80 |
888.98 KB | 9 May 2013 |