GSOC Case Throughput to 30th April 2011

Overall caseload figures

GSOC received 199 complaints and a further nine matters were referred to it under section 102(1) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 in April 2011. The latter are matters referred by the Garda Commissioner where it appears that the conduct of a Garda may have resulted in the death of, or serious harm to, a person. Such referrals are generally investigated under section 98 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005.

	During the Month	Year to date
No. of new complaints	199	779
New designations made
Informal Resolution	18	85
Section 94 Unsupervised	57	194
Section 94 Supervised	4	16
Section 95	3	14
Section 98	36	172
Move to closure	65	294
Section 102(1)	9	35
Section 102(4)	1	1
Section 102(5)	0	0
Section 106	0	0

Cases may carry over from one month to another and from one year to the next. A case may also be investigated in more than one way by GSOC depending on the allegations. Consequently these figures do not and are not intended to add up to a total.

Complaints received 2007:                2,084
Complaints received 2008:                2,681
Complaints received 2009:                2,110
Complaints received 2010:                2,258

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