Around 100 frontline gardai have received vaccines in Limerick this week, the Irish Mirror understands.
Cops from a number of garda stations received jabs at Limerick’s vaccination centre - The Radisson Blu Hotel.
A source told the Irish Mirror that surplus vaccines were given to frontline gardai over the course of a number of days this week.
Another source said gardai were “delighted” to get the vaccines as they have been working night and day on the frontline, dealing with numerous people and are at a high risk of catching Covid-19.
The source added: “Whenever we can get them, we’ll take them.”
A gardai spokesman said: “An Garda Siochana has confirmed that where offers of surplus vaccine are made by the Health Service Executive, or its agents, that members of the Garda Siochana may accept those offers.”
Gardai in Galway have also revealed vaccines in recent weeks at the city’s Merlin Park University Hospital.
Staff at the hospital rang the nearby Garda station at the end of every day’s vaccination and offered surplus jabs to officers on a first come first basis.
Senior garda members had been sent a memo informing them that it is acceptable for members of the force to accept the offer of surplus vaccines from the HSE.
Priority is to be offered to gardai who are immediately available for vaccination and who are in roles most exposed to Covid-19.
A spokesman for UL Hospital Group confirmed vaccines were administered to gardai at the Radisson Blu Limerick.
He said: “Gardai, who are considered frontline workers and work closely with our services, are listed on the standby lists, which come into play at the end of a vaccination clinic when there are doses of the vaccine leftover from that day’s timetable.
“The doses administered to gardai at the Radisson Blu Hotel this week did not impact on the timetable of scheduled doses for our prioritised Group 4 patients.”
The HSE was contacted for comment.
