ODCE wants Garda powers for white collar crime probes Updated / Friday, 22 Jan 2021 18:23 The ODCE's Director of Corporate Enforcement Ian Drennan said that under the current custody regulations, only Gardaí have the power to interview persons arrested for questioning. Industry and Employment Correspondent Staff of the planned Corporate Enforcement Agency to tackle white collar crime would be more effective if they had Garda powers to interview suspects, and to carry out off-site searches of electronic data held in accounts in the cloud, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise Trade and Employment heard today. The committee was commencing pre-legislative scrutiny of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018, which will replace the current Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement with a new Corporate Enforcement Authority.