A locksmith, a garda safe and the search for ‘missing’ €40k: What happened when investigators suddenly descended on a rural station

Bosses at Garda HQ put well-meaning officers under needless scrutiny

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When an elderly man became ill in his rural home in the north midlands, local gardaí reacted with the kind of community policing response that should have earned them plaudits.

Instead, they were drawn into a high-level internal investigation into allegedly missing money, which then spawned a spin-off disciplinary investigation into relatively minor allegations of breaches of protocol in storing property at the station.