AGSI chief in GSOC head office stand-off

Row over officer's suspension

- MICHAEL O'TOOLE

THE leader of a major Garda representative body was involved in a stand-off with bosses at GSOC inside the policing watchdog’s own HQ, it has emerged. 

The Irish Mirror has confirmed that Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors General Secretary Antoinette Cunningham refused to leave the GSOC offices in central Dublin last Thursday.

There was a row over a member of the force under criminal investigation for almost two years.

AGSI last night came out in support of Ms Cunningham and president Paul Curran, who was also at the meeting and who backed the general secretary's decision to refuse to leave the office.