Garda Raids

Gavin "shels"

Just a topic on FM104 at the moment. The topic is about a man who was having a house party, people were snorting cocaine, Gardai raid the house without a search warrant.


Question is a tip-off to the Gardai enough to raid a house or do they need the proper paper work?

johnnyskeleton

Gardai need a search warrant to enter into a person's property unless:

1) they have consent to enter;
2) there is a substantial risk that a person might be seriously injured or killed;
3) there is a substantial risk that there is an imminent risk that evidence will be destroyed; or
4) they are in hot pursuit of someone suspected of a serious offence.

The reasons are more subtle than above, but it is generally that kind of thing.

Gavin "shels"

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Gardai need a search warrant to enter into a person's property unless:

1) they have consent to enter;
2) there is a substantial risk that a person might be seriously injured or killed;
3) there is a substantial risk that there is an imminent risk that evidence will be destroyed; or
4) they are in hot pursuit of someone suspected of a serious offence.

The reasons are more subtle than above, but it is generally that kind of thing.

That's what I roughly thought myself.

mountainyman

The use of Cocaine is a serious offense.

Gavin "shels"

mountainyman wrote: »

The use of Cocaine is a serious offense.

Hardly, a few lines of cocaine. You would think they'd be after the people importing millions of euros worth of it.

thecoolfreak

While they may not have had permission to enter the house assuming the people they would have arrested weren't the owners of the house or living there they wouldn't be breaching their constitutional rights by entering without a warrant and so any evidence against them could be admitted

Mr. Presentable

Gavin shels wrote: »

Hardly, a few lines of cocaine. You would think they'd be after the people importing millions of euros worth of it.

They're after them too. In any case, snorting cocaine could be considered disposal of evidence of a crime - namely possession of a controlled substance.

Overheal

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Gardai need a search warrant to enter into a person's property unless:

1) they have consent to enter;
2) there is a substantial risk that a person might be seriously injured or killed;
3) there is a substantial risk that there is an imminent risk that evidence will be destroyed; or
4) they are in hot pursuit of someone suspected of a serious offence.

The reasons are more subtle than above, but it is generally that kind of thing.

there you go. Tipped off to narcotics being consumed that would be all they would need, I would think.