Covid-19: Members of Garda band redeployed to frontline duties Commissioner moves 76 members of force until at least the end of the month Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 06:00 Conor Lally Security and Crime Editor Listen now 2:41 Gardaí on Merrion Street in Dublin: those being redeployed include members of the Roads Policing Unit, Garda Economic Crime Bureau, human resources, and other sections and specialist units. File photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.
Members of the Garda band are among a group of specialist, usually non-frontline, gardaí who have been deployed to public duties in a bid by senior Garda management to maintain the surge in personnel required for the Covid-19 policing operation.