Two questions in one thread....

Overblood

First of all, how many different departments does the Garda Siochana have? We have the regular gardai, drug squad... E.R.U... any other ones? Do we have an F.B.I equivalent?

Also, does anybody know where I can find pictures of the ERU or detectives all kitted out with guns? I want to see how "hardcore" our police force is!

opti76

Overblood wrote: »

First of all, how many different departments does the Garda Siochana have? We have the regular gardai, drug squad... E.R.U... any other ones? Do we have an F.B.I equivalent?

Also, does anybody know where I can find pictures of the ERU or detectives all kitted out with guns? I want to see how "hardcore" our police force is!

yes ......

Victor

Have a poke around here: http://www.garda.ie/Default.aspx especially the about us section.

djtechnics1210

Units are as follows
Divisional/District Crime Task Force
District Detective Unit
Divisional/District Drugs Unit
Divisional/District Traffic Unit
Divisional Search Unit
Regional Support Unit
Crime Prevention Unit
Community Policing Unit
Special Resource Unit
Regional Traffic Unit
Mountain Bike Unit
Public Order Unit
National Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Special Detective Unit
Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation
Garda National Immigration Bureau
Emergency Response Unit
Crime and Security
Liaison and Protection
Command and Control
Scenes of Crime
Technical Bureau
Criminal Assets Bureau
Organised Crime Unit
Garda National Drugs Unit
Garda Sub Aqua Unit
Garda Mounted Unit
Garda Air Support Unit
Garda Dog Unit
Mapping Section
and a load more office jobs

Eru

Overblood wrote: »

I want to see how "hardcore" our police force is!

Its the lack of big guns and armoour that makes me hardcore!

yayamark

djtechnics1210 wrote: »

Units are as follows

Special Resource Unit
Regional Traffic Unit

What the special resource unit? I didnt know we had regional trafic units.The sub must be good:)

djtechnics1210

Traffic in dublin castle are Regional,
District/Special resource unit is one that is either district or station level and has various remits. only some stations/districts have them, up to super to create one

djtechnics1210

Overblood wrote: »

Also, does anybody know where I can find pictures of the ERU or detectives all kitted out with guns? I want to see how "hardcore" our police force is!

You'll never see how hardcore they really are until they come through your door

timmywex

Do collision investigators come under traffic or technical bearau does anyone know?

donvito99

djtechnics1210 wrote: »

Units are as follows

Divisional Search Unit

Scenes of Crime

Are these not the same?

Good post by the way.

eroo

djtechnics1210 wrote: »

Crime Prevention Unit
Community Policing Unit

Would there be something to be said for possibly amalgamating the Crime Prevention Unit with the Community Policing Unit?

Eru

Eroo,
Community is exactly that. Tea with the grannys whereas CPU are in fact beat Gardai in plain clothes. THey operate in shopping areas for pickpockets, etc. whereas my distruct has cpu hey dont have the special resource unit. Not everywhere has everything.

As well, soc are our version of csi whereas the search units are specially trained members from the station deployed when needed to perform a thorough careful search of a large area such as a field.

deadwood

Crime Prevention Officers / CPU being confused, methinks.

Think beyond the pail!

Eru

deadwood wrote: »

Crime Prevention Officers / CPU being confused, methinks.

Think beyond the pail!

But its a lonely and dark place out there!

We dont have a specific crime prevention officer (I presume you mean that guy that tells people about personal and premises security? "Get an alarm" type stuff?). We just have Crime Prevention Unit with about 10 lads on it and they do that.

eroo

deadwood wrote: »

Crime Prevention Officers / CPU being confused, methinks.

Think beyond the pail!

Spot on deadwood! I now know Crime Prevention Officers are not part of a Crime Prevention Unit!:)

But anyways, could CPO's be amalgamated into Community Policing Units?

djtechnics1210

timmywex wrote: »

Do collision investigators come under traffic or technical bearau does anyone know?

Currently they are attached to the Regional Traffic Unit based at dublin castle

djtechnics1210

eroo wrote: »

Spot on deadwood! I now know Crime Prevention Officers are not part of a Crime Prevention Unit!:)

But anyways, could CPO's be amalgamated into Community Policing Units?

Don't think it would work very well.
CPO has a fairly large workload to be honest. He/She has responsibility for various aspects of crime prevention, whether it be advice of personal security to people, talks to business people etc etc

Community policing unit have a big enough workload already without having to give out info on crime prevention.

CPO inmost places is of sergeant rank too

djtechnics1210

deadwood wrote: »

Crime Prevention Officers / CPU being confused, methinks.

Think beyond the pail!

There has to be a CPO in every district or atleast division around the country to provide information to people under threat etc,

Theres a crime prevention unit in cork, and there used to be ones in limerick and galway for stopping pickpockets etc in busy areas.
Im sure there's units like this in other stations/districts around the country but just with different titles