Those who were ill or injured, and the 120 Garda members suspended after allegations were made against them, were still included in the Garda’s “available strength” numbers. A further 192 were unavailable for work for periods in November having been injured on duty. Some 1,977 Garda members were unavailable for duty in November because of illness, though many of those were absent for very short periods of one or two days.

In March, 2020, as the pandemic broke out, there were 14,750 sworn Garda members and the available strength of the force was 14,474. When career breaks and maternity leave were factored in, the “available strength” of the Garda at the end of November was 13,907. The latest figures reveal there were 14,113 sworn Garda members in the Republic at the end of last month, a decline of almost 650 in less than three years. It added Garda numbers were still 10 per cent higher now than in 2015, with the number of civilians in the Garda force now 66 per cent higher than seven years ago. The Department of Justice said funding was in place for “up to 1,000″ new Garda recruits to be hired this year. A new recruitment process would be launched before the end of March.

It added 370 new gardaí were still attested last year while 200 recruits would enter the college every 11 to 12 weeks this year. knowlesi infections from humans were genotyped.

Garda Headquarters said Garda numbers were at record levels when the pandemic began and recruitment was curtailed as the Garda College, Templemore, Co Tipperary, was forced to close for a period. Proportions of cluster 1 and cluster 2 Plasmodium knowlesi infections as defined with the cluster-specific PCRs, Malaysian Borneo.

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