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What rights do you have on arrest?

  • 17-03-2010 8:25pm
    #1
    anne14marie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    When you are arrested, what rights do you have? Shouldn't you be told what you are arrested for?
    When you ask for a certain guards name, shouldn't he have to tell you?
    How do I go about seeing the charge sheet?


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  • #2
    ShoulderChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    you have the right to remain silent


    or so I read once


  • #3
    Robin Wren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Robin Wren


    In this day and age everything about an arrest should be transparent If they haven't given you paperwork you could contact the police station and ask them or get a solicitor to act for you.


  • #4
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/justice/arrests


    This should help.....


  • #5
    445279.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,978 ✭✭✭445279.ie


    you're given a copy of the charge along with a bail bond to attend court


  • #6
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    The ICCL have just launched a booklet on this

    http://www.iccl.ie/know-your-rights.html

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #7
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    The ICCL have just launched a booklet on this

    http://www.iccl.ie/know-your-rights.html

    Good find....


  • #8
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    anne14marie wrote: »
    Shouldn't you be told what you are arrested for?

    sounds fair in most cases it will be pretty obivous, the garda normally states I am arresting you on ....
    anne14marie wrote: »
    When you ask for a certain guards name, shouldn't he have to tell you?
    No but you could ask for his number, its normally displayed on his epulet
    anne14marie wrote: »
    How do I go about seeing the charge sheet?
    [/QUOTE]
    Pretty sure if their is a charge laid against you you will see the charge sheet.

    Are you sure you where dealing with a real Garda? This all sounds very odd


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