Minister rules out ‘ethnic profiling’ of people questioned by gardaí [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 16 January 2010
I HAVE been asked by the Minister for Integration, John Curran, to respond to your news brief headlined ‘Ethnic profiling in Ireland’ (January 13).
In it, the Nasc Irish Immigrant Support Centre claimed the EU Minorities and Discrimination Report demonstrated that An Garda Síochána is employing what is known as "ethnic profiling" in deciding who should be stopped and questioned and suggests that the gardaí should introduce a system of recording the ethnic origin of every person stopped and questioned so that subsequent analysis could prove or disprove the use by gardaí of ethnic profiling in their daily work.
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