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'You need to control your women': homicide stats whistleblower says she came under 'terrible pressure'

Summary

Lois West, a civilian analyst in the Garda Siochána Analytics Service, claims she faced intense pressure and harassment to approve a one‑sided report from a review group that she said was a "flagrant attempt" to undermine the methodology that had flagged misclassification of homicide data. She says her line manager was physically confronted by a senior officer who told him to intervene, and that she was pressured to sign off on recommendations in May 2017. West has lodged statutory complaints against the Garda Commissioner, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and the government under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, and a claim under the Payment of Wages Act. She alleges ongoing sexual harassment and continuing penalisation since she and colleague Laura Galligan began challenging homicide statistics in 2017. The case is currently before the Workplace Relations Commission, where evidence on her sexual harassment complaint will be heard.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: 'You need to control your women': homicide stats whistleblower says she came under 'terrible pressure'. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision

When:

• August 2007 Other
• 10 May 2017 Other
• 11 January 2018 Other
• 28 January Other
• March 2018 Incident
• 2024-03-04 Publication

Why: " She added that it wasn't clear to her whether entities other than An Garda Siochána had been attached to the proceedings "solely for legal tactics or for some element of the publicity, because no rational reason has been set out". CNI source report

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Stage Hearing Or Decision

Read the original CNI report