The Workplace Relations Commission

The Workplace Relations Commission

Garda whistleblower Lois West has said she was forced to take leave from work because she was “terrified” of a new civilian official installed as the head of the Garda analysis bureau after she testified to the Oireachtas about errors in homicide data.

Ms West told the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) today that she later learned an assistant commissioner had gone as far as searching the apartment of the newly-hired head of the Garda Siochána Analysis Service (GSAS) after he was seen leaving the office with a “bulging” rucksack.