Sunday, 2 March 2014

An Garda Síochána profiling Traveller family babies on Pulse system - Ireland

From http://soundmigration.wordpress.com

This morning on RTE radio one, John Mc Guiness made reference to the profiling of children and babies within the Traveller community by the police force. He spoke of one case of a 16 day old baby being entered into the Pulse system, the national police intelligence and crime database. This is one case in at least 40 families being targeted in this way. One wonders what kind of training cops get if they enter the details of a baby on a crime database. It seems that in the eyes of the police force, or certain officers at least, merely being alive makes you a criminal suspect.

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