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GSOC asks for the public's help with investigation into Dublin crash

The traffic collision happened at the junction at Dunsink Lane in the Ashtown area.

AN APPEAL IS being made for witnesses to a traffic collision in the Ashtown area of Dublin, as part of an investigation by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

GSOC would like to speak to any witnesses who observed a traffic collision near the junction of River Road and Dunsink Lane in Dublin on the afternoon of Wednesday 20 April.

GSOC is also asking those who may have CCTV, dash-cam or mobile footage to provide it to them to aid their investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to contact GSOC at 0818 600 800 or info@gsoc.ie.

GSOC investigates situations where a person has died or suffered injury around the time they were in contact with a garda. This is so that the public can be confident that there is independence in the investigation of such circumstances.

These investigations are usually initiated is following a referral from An Garda Síochána.

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    Apr 24th 2022, 2:30 PM

    Poor journalism. You imply that gsoc only investigate investigate when it appears that the conductuct of a garda may has caused serious harm to a person but Gsoc also investigate ALL crashes when there was ANY interaction with the gardai regardless of how it “appears”

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    Apr 24th 2022, 2:45 PM

    @johnbrady: Totally agree with your comment, pity they do not hold without prejudice as part of the investigative process instead of implying some form of guilt by association with gardai, what people want is balance, fairness and independence in a process to have support and input.

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    Mute Míchael Búrké
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    Apr 24th 2022, 10:30 PM

    @johnbrady: there is NO implication in the article that GSOC ONLY investigates when it appears the conduct of a Garda may have caused serious harm, the article states it investigates in such circumstances, read it again.

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    Apr 25th 2022, 4:07 AM

    @Míchael Búrké: Yes there is an implication and I don’t think you know what “implication” actually means. To state that gsoc were investigating and then to state that they investigate when it appears that the conduct of a guard may have caused serious harm implies that they are investigating because it appears the guard caused serious harm .

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    Apr 24th 2022, 2:39 PM

    And an garda siochana are obliged to make a referral to GSOC when there was an interaction with Gardai prior to a crash. That includes things like someone getting stopped a checkpoint hours before

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    Apr 24th 2022, 4:59 PM

    Terrible journalism

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    Apr 24th 2022, 5:42 PM

    Agree with everyone else here that this is a very poor piece of journalism. You’d think they’d have addressed it by now because you know they’re monitoring every comment on every article.

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    Apr 24th 2022, 9:34 PM

    The fact that those incorrect assertions in relation to the criteria in which GSOC investigate an incident haven’t been removed /edited /corrected says as much about the journal itself as it does about the “journalist”. Obviously not only does the author of the article have zero knowledge of the subject they are writing about, they also lack the wit or the interest to correct their mistakes.

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    Apr 25th 2022, 4:10 AM

    Gsoc also investigate situations where it appears the guard did absolutely nothing wrong like the hero guard who disarmed a man with a grenade and machine gun…. 3 years later he’s still under investigation

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    Mute Míchael Búrké
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    Apr 24th 2022, 10:15 PM

    A young manay have gone “missing” after the crash and “interaction” with Gardai. He may also have been found dead some days later.

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    Apr 24th 2022, 11:02 PM
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