Top Cop
The best thing that happened during Michael McDowell’s tenure as Minister of Justice has to be the appointment of Boston’s Top Cop Kathleen O’Toole to the Garda Inspectorate. In the position of Chief Inspector of the Garda Siochana for just over a year Ms. O’Toole has recently released her latest report called "Policing in Ireland".
In the document Chief O’Toole plots out an organisational scenario that is much needed, a long time in coming, and shows some common sense towards assuring accountability in the force. Similar suggestions might be needed for Education and Health, and hints at a structure that Minister Gormley should introduce into his reform of local government.
