The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors is to meet the Minister for Justice, Mrs Owen, to discuss the health and safety implications of exposure to low levels of electromagnetic radiation. This follows growing concern in the force that low-level radiation from transmitters could damage health.
The association will raise the deaths from cancer of three members of an RUC undercover unit. The men, who died in the last 12 months, were in their 30s. They wore concealed transmitters next to their skin for long periods. The transmitters were worn at the small of the back. The men died from colonic cancer.