Gardai don’t have the training to legally pursue thugs on scramblers, a Finglas based officer has warned. “First and foremost, my heart goes out to the family and friends of Grace Lynch. “The simple fact is that members of An Garda Síochána are not trained to pursue vehicles, not cars, and certainly not scramblers, which are far more unpredictable and dangerous,” he told this paper. There is not a single Garda in the country who is trained or authorised to engage in a pursuit. “When then Commissioner Drew Harris stated last year that Gardaí could now pursue vehicles under a policy change, it created a very misleading impression.