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Always on duty.

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  • 18-06-2010 10:05pm
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    Terrontress
    Registered Users Posts: 3,890 ✭✭✭


    Now, I am led to believe that a Garda is never off duty. There is always an obligation to keep the peace and when 'on duty' you are providing a level of cover but that obligation always remains the same.

    1) Is this right?
    2) Is this extraterritorial?
    3) In receipt of a Garda pension is there an obligation to do anything?


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    cushtac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭cushtac


    If someone is in receipt of a pension then they're no longer a Garda.


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    MagicSean
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    A garda is not always on duty. But he is always a garda. And the powers given to him are there for the most part wether he is on or off duty.


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    Terrontress
    Registered Users Posts: 3,890 ✭✭✭Terrontress


    What I was more getting at was the obligation to behave in a certain way in a given situation. Not the powers that they have.


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    Sitric
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Sitric


    Have you ever been to Copper Face Jacks?


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    MagicSean
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    They have to act within the law just like anyone else. They cant bring the garda name into disrepute either (ie wearing their cap while chugging a bottle of vodka). But other than that they are free to live like normal people.


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    Leo Demidov
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭Leo Demidov


    k_mac wrote: »
    They have to act within the law just like anyone else. They cant bring the garda name into disrepute either (ie wearing their cap while chugging a bottle of vodka). But other than that they are free to live like normal people.

    Shouldnt that read "live as normal people" or am i to believe that guards are not normal?:p


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    bravestar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭bravestar


    Terrontress wrote: »
    What I was more getting at was the obligation to behave in a certain way in a given situation. Not the powers that they have.

    Did you have a beef with a Garda who was off duty or didn't do what you think they should have done?


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    Terrontress
    Registered Users Posts: 3,890 ✭✭✭Terrontress


    bravestar wrote: »
    Did you have a beef with a Garda who was off duty or didn't do what you think they should have done?

    No.


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    deadwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭deadwood


    k_mac wrote: »
    (ie wearing their cap while chugging a bottle of vodka).



    Yes. Always remove your cap before chugging a bottle of vodka.


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    Coolbreeze2809
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭Coolbreeze2809


    deadwood wrote: »


    Yes. Always remove your cap before chugging a bottle of vodka.

    Or beret in the case of the RDF ;)


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