Detections for drink driving are up this year despite a significant drop in the number of people being breathalysed.
Garda traffic chiefs told the Policing Authority yesterday the rise in detections was due to a targeted approach to breathtesting.
In what was the Policing Authority’s inaugural public meeting with senior gardaí, led by commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, it also emerged there was a 70% satisfaction rate among the public in the gardaí.
The commissioner, flanked by six of her management team, dealt with questions on the 2016 Garda Policing Plan relating to community policing.
Traffic boss assistant commissioner John O’Mahoney told the authority that the number of detections of people driving under the influence of drink or drugs rose from 1,765 in the first quarter of 2015 to 1,833 in the same period this year. This was despite a signification reduction in the number of breathalyser tests, from almost 81,000 in the first quarter of 2015 to 67,500 in the first quarter of 2016.
Source: Cormac O'Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 26/04/16
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