Garda ride-along for American cop?

Manic Moran

Greetings.

My S-2 asked me a favour. He's a cop with Henderson PD, near Las Vegas, and is coming to Ireland on his holidays. He expressed an interest in doing a Garda ride-along, out of professional curiousity if nothing else. I'm a little suspiscious that such a facility exists, but I told him I'd ask.

Is he SOL or is there someone he can talk to to arrange it?

NTM

Com1186

tell him the best way is for him to write or email the superintendent of the area in which he would like to do a "ride a long" with and they will get clearance if they can...

goldie fish

Best bet doing it through the IPA. They have done this before, worldwide. He may not get a ride-along, but he'll certainly be welcomed in whatever station he ends up at.

Garda welcomes at their barracks to visiting policemen from the US are far warmer than similar receptions given to visiting foreign army officers by the Irish DF, you'll find.

I remember spending a very interesting day In Limerick hearing about how the DC federal police do their job.

sdanseo

Not impossible, the guy who wrote the wire did it recently and wrote an article for the Herald to boot.

bk

sdeire wrote: »

Not impossible, the guy who wrote the wire did it recently and wrote an article for the Herald to boot.

Sounds interesting, would you have a link to the article?

Bosh

What part of the country is he visiting?

d3exile

Definitely a letter/email/phone call to the local IPA rep, the Super isn't a bad way to go but sometimes things they don't have to do, they may not go out of their way to do it... find out who the IPA person is in the Division he's visiting and i'd be 99% sure they'll sort it, better chance of them proposing it to the Super rather than coming in a letter from an unknown...

sdanseo

bk wrote: »

Sounds interesting, would you have a link to the article?

Now that would be something, it's a good while ago now.

To google we go. Watch this space. Well that took less time than expected:
http://www.herald.ie/news/the-wire-irish-style-2222216.html

arybvtcw0eolkf

goldie fish wrote: »

Garda welcomes at their barracks to visiting policemen from the US are far warmer than similar receptions given to visiting foreign army officers by the Irish DF, you'll find.

Sorry but I can't let that go.

I've had friends from the Israeli Defence Forces, the British army and a US marine officer visit my unit and various units in the barracks and they've left with an over whelming positive experience.

I've also had Garda friends visit who were interested in seeing the various weapons and equipment we use and they enjoyed the same positive experience.

We also host regular school tours and involve ourselves in regular youth activities. Its simply untrue to say we don't extend a warm welcome to visitors.

Manic Moran

Mmm. I have concluded that it is far better for me to show up 'under the radar' as it were, when visiting a barracks. That said, as I'm familiar with the DF and haven't lost my D14 accent entirely, I can usually pull that off easily enough. I get the distinct impression that whipping out my US Army ID card at the gate would likely cause more trouble than its worth.

NTM

arybvtcw0eolkf

Manic Moran wrote: »

Mmm. I have concluded that it is far better for me to show up 'under the radar' as it were, when visiting a barracks. That said, as I'm familiar with the DF and haven't lost my D14 accent entirely, I can usually pull that off easily enough. I get the distinct impression that whipping out my US Army ID card at the gate would likely cause more trouble than its worth.

NTM

The duty officer would probably delight in giving you an honor guard!.

But in all seriousness all that would happen is the chain of command would be followed.

The gateman would call the BOS, who in turn would call the D.O. who in turn would inform the camp h.q. who would tell the camp Adjt who would tell the camp O.C... Who in turn would tell the officer's mess sec to have a table prepared

kub

Manic Moran wrote: »

Greetings.

My S-2 asked me a favour. He's a cop with Henderson PD, near Las Vegas, and is coming to Ireland on his holidays. He expressed an interest in doing a Garda ride-along, out of professional curiousity if nothing else. I'm a little suspiscious that such a facility exists, but I told him I'd ask.

Is he SOL or is there someone he can talk to to arrange it?

NTM

Hopefully your colleague will get his ride along. I wonder though, is it high time now that solicitors, barristers, judges and politicians were regularly sent out on such ride alongs?
It might show them what actually goes on in the real world, other than the utopian neighbourhoods which many obviously come from.

CB19Kevo

kub wrote: »

Hopefully your colleague will get his ride along. I wonder though, is it high time now that solicitors, barristers, judges and politicians were regularly sent out on such ride alongs?
It might show them what actually goes on in the real world, other than the utopian neighbourhoods which many obviously come from.

Judges should be made to do this every year in my view, Some of them could do with a kick up the backside,
Maybe them observing a scumbag going nuts at a assault and then resisting arrest would give them a reality check:rolleyes: