{"id":126847,"date":"2025-11-07T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126847\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:15:13","slug":"senior-officers-searched-home-of-ex-garda-analysis-chief-after-he-failed-to-show-up-for-work-whistleblower-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126847\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior officers searched home of ex-Garda analysis chief after he failed to show up for work, whistleblower says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Workplace Relations Commission\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b1620384-67bc-486b-878a-b6e2919073ba.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Workplace Relations Commission<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda whistleblower Lois West has said she was forced to take leave from work because she was \u201cterrified\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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 Sioch\u00e1na Analysis Service (GSAS) after he was seen leaving the office with a \u201cbulging\u201d rucksack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Workplace Relations Commission Garda whistleblower Lois West has said she was forced to take leave from work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-126847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}