The Garda Representative Association has voted to reject the Garda Reserve at their annual conference in Galway today.
A motion calling for the rejection of the reserve force was formally put to the conference this afternoon where it was passed unanimously.
The motion will result in the formal ratification of the GRA's plan not to co-operate with reservists, 900 of whom are to begin operating in September.
Earlier today the General Secretary of the Garda Representative Association has overruled a suggestion by the GRA's new president that gardaí would run an election campaign against Government deputies.
Speaking at the GRA conference in Galway today, GRA General Secretary PJ Stone said the comments from GRA president John Egan were "ill-founded."
He said gardaí wanted to be involved in policing and not politics.
Mr Stone said the GRA had been making "very sincere arguments" and "was not targeting anyone," and "was not involved in subterfuge."
He said of the GRA that it was "not our intention to create a political debate," and added "if we have given that impression then I'm very sorry."
Mr Stone said a plan to target Government TDs in vulnerable constituencies as part of its campaign against the Garda Reserve would not now happen but reasserted his organisation's opposition to the Garda Reserve.
A spokeswoman for Mr McDowell said the Minister welcomed "the withdrawal of the threat by the association secretary".
Mr Stone's statement came after Minister for Justice Michael McDowell and Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy warned the GRA yesterday that they had no place interfering in politics.
Yesterday, incoming GRA president John Egan said there were five marginal constituencies where Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrat TDs could be damaged before next year's election.
He said "We know where they are and they know where they are. We will be waiting in the long grass for them."