It will take “some time” for people with a critical viewpoint inside An Garda Síochána to be fully accepted as “constructive and loyal members”, the organisation’s audit body has said.
The Garda Audit Committee said it was “the experience” of the committee that a culture of “conformity, unity, and loyalty” was strong in the force.
In its 2017 annual report, it said there were “pockets of resistance” internally to the reform agenda.
The audit committee said the “professional tensions” identified in the report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), published last July, reflected the internal differences regarding transparency and accountability.
That PAC report was the result of intensive, and sometimes fractious, hearings on the interim report by the head of…
