GARDA SPENDS €4M TO BOOST RECRUITMENT

Vacancies in HR, finance & IT, €260k to hire role play actors

- SEAN MCCARTHAIGH

GARDAI are to spend €4million on recruitment specialists to assist with hiring staff over the next two years. 

A series of new tenders issued by An Garda Siochana shows the force is separately planning to fork out around €260,000 on bringing in actors to engage in role-play with officers engaged in specialist training.

A similar amount is also being set aside for expenditure on up to 4,000 pairs of black Oxford dress shoes for recruits at the Garda College in Templemore, Co Tipperary.