Twenty two members of An Garda Siochana have been convicted of a crime over the past three and a half years.
The records – released under FOI for the first time by the Internal Affairs Section of the gardai – detail a range of different convictions for officers.
They cover drink driving, misuse of drugs, sexual crime and an offence under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act.
Gardai said details of disciplinary action taken against the convicted officers would not be released because it was “of a personal nature to the individuals involved”.
They added they needed to confidentially maintain details of its disciplinary proceedings and that this outweighed the public interest in knowing what, if any, sanction had applied to the officers involved.
Three gardai were listed as having convictions under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001 which deals with theft offences.
For offences covering harassment there were two convictions.
A single conviction under Section 6 (1) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act was recorded as was a conviction under Section 3 Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act relating to sexual exploitation of children.
A garda member was also convicted under Section 5 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act, which deals with production and distribution of child pornography.
The details were obtained by transparency group Right To Know following an appeal to An Garda Siochana, which had originally refused to release them.
A Garda spokeswoman said: “[We] do not comment on individual cases.
“Any procedures invoked as to a member being convicted of a criminal offence is on a case-by-case basis and is carried out based solely on the merits of each individual case and specificity of each case which is presented to the organisation.”
