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Garda inappropriate behaviour

  • 17-12-2011 5:52am
    #1
    confuced101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hello All,
    I was hoping for some advice regarding off duty gardai. How would reporting a off duty garda for Harassment begin. This incident may have resulted in the off-duty garda flashing his badge but refusing to identify his number or name? Thank you.


Comments

  • #2
    braintoxic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭braintoxic


    This is how it works . He can do whatever he wants and you cant ...simple


  • #3
    Balfie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    braintoxic wrote: »
    This is how it works . He can do whatever he wants and you cant ...simple

    This is the worst advice you will ever receive on boards.ie.


  • #4
    kmart6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    It either did or didn't result in a badge being flashed...it's one or the other so spit it out!


  • #5
    confuced101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭confuced101


    He flashed a badge. I ask for a id number he did not say name or number.


  • #6
    kmart6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Have you been drinking?

    For all you know it could have been any Joe Soap who just flashed something shiny!

    You don't have a name or badge number so basically you have nothing to actually report/make an issue of!


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  • #7
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    His name and id number are on the badge.


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


    Define harassment?


  • #9
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    OP , your question really is academic - without a name or number there is no way you could make a complaint ( assuming a complaint is justified ).
    Forget about it and move on.


  • #10
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    I thought they carry an ID card , warrant card ? not so much a badge as such


  • #11
    confuced101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭confuced101


    There was some guy eating chips. Told him to pick up his crap off the ground. He flashed some badge. Did not show. We left him he followed.Then got into a scuffle with the guy he smashed his phone. On duty garda came and told us to move on while not doing anything to the guy who flashed a badge. Yes we were drinking. So I will probably leave it. Thanks all.


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  • #12
    bath handle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 370 ✭✭bath handle


    confuced101 wrote: »
    There was some guy eating chips. Told him to pick up his crap off the ground. He flashed some badge.Did not show. We left him he followed.Then got into a scuffle with the guy he smashed his phone. On duty garda came and told us to move on while not doing anything to the guy who flashed a badge. Yes we were drinking. So I will probably leave it. Thanks all.
    So a person can't even eat chips in peace now?


  • #13
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    confuced101 wrote: »
    There was some guy eating chips. Told him to pick up his crap off the ground. He flashed some badge. Did not show. We left him he followed.Then got into a scuffle with the guy he smashed his phone. On duty garda came and told us to move on while not doing anything to the guy who flashed a badge. Yes we were drinking. So I will probably leave it. Thanks all.

    I can't understand your sentences. Did you smash the garda's phone, or did the garda break someone else's? Or his own?


  • #14
    Corruptable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭Corruptable


    confuced101 wrote: »
    Hello All,
    I was hoping for some advice regarding off duty gardai. How would reporting a off duty garda for Harassment begin. This incident may have resulted in the off-duty garda flashing his badge but refusing to identify his number or name? Thank you.

    If you've no details you've got nothing.

    If you have any credible evidence to prove this person was an on or off-duty garda, you could complain to the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission and/or through your local garda station.

    In order for harassment to exist, in either a civil or criminal law sense, the conduct would generally have to be persistent. This seems to have been a once-off, given that you don't even know who "harassed" you.

    You were also intoxicated at the time, so that's not going to encourage anyone who relieves your complaint that there is actually anything further to it than a brief scuffle.


  • #15
    MyKeyG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    mattjack wrote: »
    I thought they carry an ID card , warrant card ? not so much a badge as such
    They do how else do you think they get into night clubs for free?


  • #16
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    confuced101 wrote: »
    There was some guy eating chips. Told him to pick up his crap off the ground. He flashed some badge. Did not show. We left him he followed.Then got into a scuffle with the guy he smashed his phone. On duty garda came and told us to move on while not doing anything to the guy who flashed a badge. Yes we were drinking. So I will probably leave it. Thanks all.

    What badge ? A badge that showed him to be a paid up member of the Land Rights For Gay Whales Action Group ?
    You don't even know what badge he showed , he did not claim to be a Garda.
    In fairness to the Gardai there seems to be nil evidence this man was a member.


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