Almost £140,000 was awarded by the High Court yesterday to gardai under the Garda Compensation Acts.
During the hearings Mr Justice Budd criticised the Garda authorities for not reacting speedily enough when injuries to gardai prompted fears that they might have contracted HIV.
The judge said tests could be carried out which would establish within six months whether they had been infected or not.
By not providing tests or adequate counselling, prolonged and undue anxiety i was caused to the gardai and the taxpayer was being hit for higher compensation, he said.
A retired sergeant, Mr Michael Barry (60), who suffered severe shoulder injuries after he was attacked by a member of a gang which "terrorised" the Aghada area of east Cork was awarded more than £38,000 compensation.
He said he received physiotherapy for his dislocated shoulder every second day for a year. His arm was limp and numb and he had to learn to write with his left hand. He was left with two numb fingers, little grip and no movement.
A Dublin-based garda received £16,000 for an incident during which a man he was pursuing slammed a glass door in his face, leading to him having 23 stitches.
A Co Louth garda who was attacked by a mob at a disco at Ravensdale, Dundalk, and bitten twice by a drug addicted prostitute received £13,500.
The judge awarded a Co Kerry detective sergeant £4,000 for pain and suffering caused when he intervened in a row. Damages of £27,500 were awarded to a Sligo garda who was kicked, punched, bitten and head-butted when he intervened in a row outside a public house.
In Co Donegal a garda, while restraining a husband in a domestic row, was bitten twice by the man's Alsatian dog. He received £9,000.
A Dublin garda who suffered whiplash injuries when a patrol car was rammed twice in separate incidents in 1992 and 1994 received £16,000.
A Co Sligo garda who intervened in a family row was kneed in the testicles and kicked on the shoulders, face and chest by two teenage sisters. He was awarded £8,000.
A Co Mayo garda who was head-butted while escorting a patient to St Theresa's Psychiatric hospital, Castlebar and who received stitches to his left eye was awarded £7,500.