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What do the boys and girls in blue make of this...

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  • #2
    audidiesel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭audidiesel


    someone would want to be doing something fairly bad now for me to stop them in my own car. havent ever done it and no intention of starting.

    having said that if the other car stopped for him and he identified himself as indicated in the first post then, theres no legal issue.

    once identified the guard has the full authority to prosecute as if he was on duty and in uniform


  • #3
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    How can one be sure what badge is "flashed" is a genuine garda ID?


  • #4
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    The OP from that thread posts this late on..
    Jabberwocky wrote: »
    He didn't identify himself as anything. He flashed something in his wallet which looked like a Celtic cross from Garda Patrol logo. No name, never said I am a Garda or anything.

    We have no way of knowing whether or not the guy was a Garda or not, but I suspect not. I wouldn't be stopping for his alternating-lights French saloon.


  • #5
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    I Dont think that was a Garda if it was he needs a more active social life.


  • #6
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    I would have ask for his name and badge number ( or whatever it is here) and just have rang the local station after to clarify with them. I would have also made a note of his reg.

    If he isn't a member of the force so be it, take the "grief" then report him after and let them AGS deal with it.If he was a Guard then no harm done I suppose.


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  • #7
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Local-womanizer wrote: »
    I would have ask for his name and badge number ( or whatever it is here) and just have rang the local station after to clarify with them. I would have also made a note of his reg.

    If he isn't a member of the force so be it, take the "grief" then report him after and let them AGS deal with it.If he was a Guard then no harm done I suppose.

    From a legal point of view, a garda is not obliged to provide either. He merely needs to identify himself as a member of AGS and produce his ID card, to let you know he has it(and the powers it carries).


  • #8
    alexlyons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭alexlyons


    are you not entitled to read his ID card?

    would sort of defeat the purpose if your not.


  • #9
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    alexlyons wrote: »
    are you not entitled to read his ID card?

    would sort of defeat the purpose if your not.

    No.
    He merely needs to be in posession of it. How would you know what an ID card is supposed to look like?


  • #10
    alexlyons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭alexlyons


    Well if he doesn't have to give name or badge number, and you aren't entitled to read his Id card, what's stopping anyone from saying there a guard? Other than the law. They don't have to prove anything etc, I don't believe for a second a guard can just say "I'm a guard" and then you must do as he says (obviously within his powers)....


  • #11
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    goldie fish wrote: »
    No.
    He merely needs to be in posession of it. How would you know what an ID card is supposed to look like?

    A few of my friends are Garda and I have seen there badges, nothing to them really. There in a case like this,

    snip


    I dunno, weight up the situation in your head.

    If you done something wrong and a Garda decided to have a word with you about it chances are it's a Garda.

    If you done nothing wrong and someone is waving a badge around saying there a Garda chances are it's not a Garda.

    From my teenage years, we got stopped by two undercovers. They just stopped us, Hi there, we are members of An Garda Síochána from whatever station, they showed us there badges, they didn't 'flash' them.


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  • #12
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    Im not happy to have half of a new style Garda Identification Badge on display here.

    The thread on motors has run its course and now so has this one.


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