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Why do the gardai only drive certain brands

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    #62
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    I can confirm that Donnybrook Garda station's drugs squad used to have a Hyundai Accent.

    They loved it as they could drive right up to the dealers and arrest them before they even noticed what was going on. I was in it before (not for misbehaviour :p). They said it was good for chases on narrow streets as well


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    #63
    sean1141
    Registered Users Posts: 4,088 ✭✭✭sean1141


    they use to have an avensis and a yaris marked in roscrea. now they have a mondeo and a fiesta!! also a silver/gray unmarked corolla hatch.

    around portlaoise there is the usual selection of unmarked mondeos. they use to have one of them v6's in bright red.. they have a silver 3 series unmarked now. also a red focus saloon unmarked


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    #64
    pitkan
    Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭pitkan


    Regardless of what make they drive there is a contradiction in seeing a car with Garda written on it and two Gardai inside. LOL


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    #65
    Stevie Dakota
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Stevie Dakota


    Stekelly wrote: »
    Not the ones they dont want you to see.

    and these would'nt be pulling you for speeding anyway.

    Invisible cop cars that won't pull you over. Good to see tax payers money being put to good use.


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    #66
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    squod wrote: »
    They had a couple of petrol Forresters aswell.
    fast fecking yokes
    i was tipping along one, probably doing between 80 an 120 on some fastish back roads when i saw one come up behind me a a serious rate seemed to have more important things on thier minds

    also this thrtead lists an octo rs a 525 a 530d and some more

    http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/~peoplesr/forums/showthread.php?p=3259574


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    #67
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    Anyone know if the Gardaí are still buying cars and putting them straight into storage to depreciate?

    300 garda cars left idle for over a year


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    #68
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Tea 1000 wrote: »
    There was an unmarked IS200 and an unmarked Alfa 156 in Sligo, never got beside the 156 to see what engine it had though. Doubt it was one of the V6's, but you never know!

    the dark blue 156 was a v6 alright


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    #69
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Stevie Dakota wrote: »
    Invisible cop cars that won't pull you over. Good to see tax payers money being put to good use.

    You really want to see every garda resource devoted to speed traps and traffic?


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    #70
    antomorro-sei
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭antomorro-sei


    R.O.R wrote: »
    Saw an unmarked 530d around the airport a while ago.

    Silver?

    Saw one flying up the N7 one day. Never thought I'd see an unmarked BMW here :pac:


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    #71
    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    We need a few Crown Vic's and Charger R/T's! :D


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    #72
    Damien360
    Registered Users Posts: 6,391 ✭✭✭Damien360


    maggy_thatcher wrote: »
    As well as the extra set of "indicator" lights on the front. I'd classify those cars as "partially marked" rather than "unmarked." They mightn't have "GARDA" written in big writing across them, but they've got enough other tell-tales to indicate they are cop cars.

    I had a job to do in garda headquarters recently and spotted a 07 silver mondeo (last shape) with no aerials on the roof other than usual ford one, blacked out windows and a camera on front dash and rear shelf. The blacked out windows made them really hard to spot. The strobes on the front dash were lowered than normal, again making them harder to spot. The blue flashers were mounted inside the front headlight system. It did'nt spot any others like it (prototype perhaps ?)

    The same car happened to be behind me in traffic at the junction of naas road and long mile road a few days later. The blacked out rear window made it very hard to spot the camera systems.

    If that is the future of unmarked traffic cars then we are all in for heavy points.


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    #73
    Damien360
    Registered Users Posts: 6,391 ✭✭✭Damien360


    antomorro-sei wrote: »
    Silver?

    Saw one flying up the N7 one day. Never thought I'd see an unmarked BMW here :pac:

    Silver unmarked 318i with short aerial on boot on the N7 close to portlaoise every day. 5 series seems to be reserved for moving foreign dignitaries around.


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    #74
    trackcar
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭trackcar


    Corolla twin cam cop car

    357-8.jpg


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    #75
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    I used to work for a dealer that did a lot of work for the guards in the Phoenix park. I used to have to collect them and bring them to the garage and man I tell you , never think you can always spot a Garda car. I got some wake up call when I saw what they used as under cover , not un-marked but true under cover cars.

    Now this was about 10 yeárs ago but they had VW Passats , Hyundai Sonatas , Citroen Xantias , Pug 309 :eek::D . There was a Lite Ace camper kinda thing with more holes in it than a tea bag for camera equipment. Another similar Vanette , the list goes on and on.

    Also to throw the bad guys off the trail , we'd always have to charge things to the chassis number rather than the reg because they used to change the reg numbers around. The cars would be decked out like Joe public cars with child seats , stickers in the window , dud insuránce certs , rubbish on the back seat. I tell you lads , never pressume you know its a Garda car........although the big mothers milk culchie head from somewhere in the bog , slouching in the drivers seat wearing a gammy leather jacket while holding on to the grab handle is far more of a giveaway :D:D:D


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    #76
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    trackcar wrote: »
    Corolla twin cam cop car

    357-8.jpg

    is that real?


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    #77
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,944 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Einhard wrote: »
    Does anyone else find it slightly odd, disturbing even, that the first car is being used for advertising? It's not a bloody taxi ffs!

    Um, the "www.tipperaryphotos.com" was added to the photo -it's not actually on the car ;). It's just a watermark of the site that took/hosts the photo.

    For instance, this Coast Guard car doesn't actually have "www.tipperaryphotos.com" plastered across the widscreen:

    aa1-32.jpg

    More pics here: http://www.tipperaryphotos.com/Emergency-Services-Page


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    #78
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    I have to agree with you SAAB-ED.

    I heard of an old guy reversing out of his driveway and clipping a builders van parked by the side of the road. Nobody was around so he drove off and thought nothing more of it until he was approached a couple of weeks later on his driveway by the boys in blue.

    The wreck of a builders van he hit was an undercover van and they couldn't get out to him or they would blow their cover.


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    #79
    Live4Ever
    Registered Users Posts: 539 ✭✭✭Live4Ever


    I saw an unmarked CLS-Class Merc one day on the N7 just after Rathcoole. he had some other driver pulled in and was taking his details for whatever reason. It had the blue flashing lights in the rear and front windows too so it was definetly the Gardai!!


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    #80
    Einhard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    challengemaster wrote: »
    That'd be someone putting a "watermark" on the pic.

    Er, yes, I knew that. Ha, ha, watermark...you'd want to be an idiot not to know that!









    Runs off and hides...


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    #81
    chilloutman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭chilloutman


    cause there absolute ****


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    #82
    Helium
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭Helium


    Remember being at Merlin car auctions couple years ago and lot of various ex-garda cars.
    Jaysus they were really thrashed inside and out,don't know who'd want one though.


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    #83
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,805 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    chilloutman wrote: »
    cause there absolute ****

    No need for that at all


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    #84
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Helium wrote: »
    Remember being at Merlin car auctions couple years ago and lot of various ex-garda cars.
    Jaysus they were really thrashed inside and out,don't know who'd want one though.

    I know the type - but cant say for fear of being banned or called a racist


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    #85
    knifey_spoonie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭knifey_spoonie


    The blue light tech. is coming on in leaps and bounds, Seen some of the new prision service bus's. There is a small blue coil about 2cm tall in the base of the headlights. Thats it, no other lights, and for something that small they are bright.


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    #86
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,503 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Tigger wrote: »
    Tea 1000 wrote: »
    There was an unmarked IS200 and an unmarked Alfa 156 in Sligo, never got beside the 156 to see what engine it had though. Doubt it was one of the V6's, but you never know!
    the dark blue 156 was a v6 alright

    They absolutely made ****e of that car


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    #87
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    they liked it alright
    :cool:


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    #88
    Peteemax
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭Peteemax


    Tigger wrote: »
    is that real?


    I'd say its photoshop job mate.


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    #89
    fitzeyboy.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭fitzeyboy.


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    They absolutely made ****e of that car
    hmm believe I saw that car in a breakers in south kilkenny a few hours after it came in. Had a bad smash not far from templemore when a trainee gaurd ran out of talent and smacked a mondeo of all things


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    #90
    shanemc1
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭shanemc1


    33ohah4.jpg

    My old wagon, came from the mean streets of New York, sold it last Christmas now patrol's the mean streets of Waterford! On a separate note Gardai are inviting tenders for 300 new cars http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUN157235&catID=66 Mainly all diesel car's there looking for interestingly enough.


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    #91
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Another one for Limerick, was in front of me today in Dooradoyle. Unmarked light blue Focus saloon 06 - D


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