Dissappearing Gardai at Night

jetsonx

When in Dublin city centre and suburbs I cannot help notice our force floating about whether it be on motorcycle, mountain bike, patrol car or in their unmarked Ford Focuses or Mondeos. High visibility daytime policing.

The wierd thing is this. Come around 12am at night, it is as if somebody waves a magic wand. They all disappear. Even in Dublin city centre. The mountain bike cops dissappear, the unmarked Fords disappear and you will be lucky if you see a patrol car.

Why is this? Pick up the Hearld's court reports any day of the week and a substantial amount of crime seems to happen after 12am at night but where are our force then when they are really needed?

Hooch

jetsonx wrote: »

When in Dublin city centre and suburbs I cannot help notice our force floating about whether it be on motorcycle, mountain bike, patrol car or in their unmarked Ford Focuses or Mondeos. High visibility daytime policing.

The wierd thing is this. Come around 12am at night, it is as if somebody waves a magic wand. They all disappear. Even in Dublin city centre. The mountain bike cops dissappear, the unmarked Fords disappear and you will be lucky if you see a patrol car.

Why is this? Pick up the Hearld's court reports any day of the week and a substantial amount of crime seems to happen after 12am at night but where are our force then when they are really needed?

Would you cycle a bike at night, on your own, with a big Garda sign on your back??

Unmarked cars are still out and about, just not as many, and due to darkness they are harder to spot.

Marked cars are still out there patroling, some do head back to the station to catch up on paper work if the night is quiet.

Just because you dont see a patrol car doesnt mean they arent there. You often hear people saying they travelled from Cork to Donegal and didnt see a Garda car.......doesnt mean you werent see by them.

NedTermo

nice guy always wrote: »

Would you cycle a bike at night, on your own, with a big Garda sign on your back??

Unmarked cars are still out and about, just not as many, and due to darkness they are harder to spot.

Marked cars are still out there patroling, some do head back to the station to catch up on paper work if the night is quiet.

Just because you dont see a patrol car doesnt mean they arent there. You often hear people saying they travelled from Cork to Donegal and didnt see a Garda car.......doesnt mean you werent see by them.

Sorry Inspector Morse.

Hooch

NedTermo wrote: »

Sorry Inspector Morse.

source

jetsonx wrote: »

Why is this? Pick up the Hearld's court reports any day of the week and a substantial amount of crime seems to happen after 12am at night but where are our force then when they are really needed?

Are you for real? how do you think that these cases get to court for them to appear in the evening herald? Is it that the Gardai are actually out attending these calls, keeping them busy? thereby limiting the amount of time they can spend patrolling.

*snip* the crooks don't just go to court of their own accord.

Nice_Guy_Eddie

I suppose it depends on where you are.

I've noticed around my mothers area in Dublin that there is a higher Garda presence at night and now the evenings are getting dark earlier, they're around earlier.

I'm usually popping in at weekends but you do see them the occasional weekday too. They are doing a great job against the anti-social behavior that has gone on in her area over the past while. She's mentioned it more than once how much quieter it is these days.

Although now it's coming up to halloween I'm sure they'll all be out keeping the guards and fire brigade busy!

Drummerboy08

In Templebar last night, there seemed to be a fairly good Garda presence around, both on foot and a few patrol cars.

Then the taxi got stopped at a checkpoint on the way home. Seems to me like there are a few around!

nice guy always

nice guy always wrote: »

Think there is a lot of people heading in here trying to stir up things NiceGuy.

Zambia

jetsonx wrote: »

Why is this? Pick up the Hearld's court reports any day of the week and a substantial amount of crime seems to happen after 12am at night but where are our force then when they are really needed?

I think you have answered your own question there

Crime Happens => Garda Get Called => Garda Attend Crime => Garda Stay at Crime scene for a while take notes, ask questions, take abuse , take more notes , arrest someone ,etc

While this all goes on the car is parked down a laneway or side street and not patroling around. So in essence when crime is high you see less Garda.

Well thats what I have always assumed.

Zambia

Nice_Guy_Eddie wrote: »

I suppose it depends on where you are.

I've noticed around my mothers area in Dublin that there is a higher Garda presence at night and now the evenings are getting dark earlier, they're around earlier.

I'm usually popping in at weekends but you do see them the occasional weekday too. They are doing a great job against the anti-social behavior that has gone on in her area over the past while. She's mentioned it more than once how much quieter it is these days.

Although now it's coming up to halloween I'm sure they'll all be out keeping the guards and fire brigade busy!

Does your mum live on the top of Harcourt st?

timmywex

Ive only been in dublin afew weeks but there always seems to be plenty tiping around templebar/harcourt areas, or where id be out basically! Certainly as many as during the day i think.

AlekSmart

I'm usually popping in at weekends but you do see them the occasional weekday too. They are doing a great job against the anti-social behavior that has gone on in her area over the past while. She's mentioned it more than once how much quieter it is these days.

Interesting point here,one which is making me ponder.

This particular week has left me with a deep sense of foreboding for the future.
I refer specifically to the general situation in the City Centre and the University "zones".

I have never had to endure such unadulterated nonsense from ANY groups as I have witnessed and tolerated this week.

It is almost as if UCD Belfield has become a vast skip into which Ireland has emptied those whom it simply does`nt know what to with.

Even when deposited in the City Centre,these unfortunates then proceed to run wild,like some spring lamb on steroids,buckleppin and yahooing as they run across D`Olier St and anywhere else they can defy death by jumping in front of a moving vehicle or cyclist.

Whilst these fine fellows may not yet be an actual threat to Society in general,they most certainly are a threat to their own safety and the specific safety of anybody expected to bow before their incredible self-confidence and belief in fairies....

Whats perplexing me is who these clowns expect to employ them once they`ve got an oul degree....I fervently hope it`s not AGS...

Sierra Oscar

AlekSmart wrote: »

I have never had to endure such unadulterated nonsense from ANY groups as I have witnessed and tolerated this week.

Well, plenty of people do have to put up with it every week. University students going wild is not a new phenomenon, nor is it confined to the Dublin colleges.

deadwood

Gardai out at night? Are you nuts? Have you seen what it's like out there?

jetsonx

deadwood wrote: »

Gardai out at night? Are you nuts? Have you seen what it's like out there?

lol @ deadwood, yes this is my suspicion too!

da__flash

and if its raining on the night forget about it:pac:

Johnny Utah

I opened this thread hoping to see Ireland's answer to Harry Houdini......




/Thread disappoints!

jetsonx

Zambia232 wrote: »

the car is parked down a laneway or side street and not patroling around. So in essence when crime is high you see less Garda.

Well thats what I have always assumed.

ah...so that its...all the patrol cars drive down lane ways after 12am..

Shield

This can be answered very quickly and easily, without sarcasm.

During the day, the AGS members you see are on patrol.

At night, the AGS members you don't see are busy as hell going from call to call to call to call.

Easy.

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