Question on pulse records.

Finnbar01 wrote: »

BTW, I've heard that Garda are not allowed to access records on persons they are not dealing with. I take it that every record accessed is flagged with the garda's id, but how would garda management know that the garda doing the accessing is doing so for a third party?*

*Maybe not allowed to answer that because it's to do with garda procedure???

It 's possible that Gardai may not feel able to discuss internal procedures on this public forum. I'm not a guard but I can tell you how it works in England - and you should get some idea of how it might work here.

Example - A Police Offficer in , say , London runs a check on a named individual - that search / check is recorded via the Police Officers I.D. - a certain % of checks are selected for random scrutiny , that is to say in a few weeks time that officer could receive a notice telling him/her that on such a date they ran a check on so and so - WHY ?
The Officer now has to justify his/her reasons for checking that person and he/she should also have a written record of the check.

Run a load of checks without record or justification ? That Police Officer would have a lot of questions to answer as to their use of information.

Not unreasonable to guess the Garda procedure may be something similar- but then I'm just speculating :rolleyes: