A local Sinn Féin TD believes changes need to be made to address recruitment and retention issues in An Garda Síochana. 194 new Gardaí were sworn into service at the Garda College in Templemore last week.
However, it later emerged that no newly attested Gardaí have been allocated to the Roscommon-Longford Garda Division. Longford-Westmeath TD Sorca Clarke has criticised the current Garda recruitment system: