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Traffic stop

  • 22-06-2013 12:13am
    #1
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 17 ✭


    Do the Gardai need to have a reason to pull someone over?

    Can they pull you over purely for the hell of it? Do they have to give a reason for the stop?

    Are records kept of stops?


Comments

  • #2
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Can I ask a supplementary?

    I heard recently of Gardai conducting checkpoints on the Dublin to Limerick Rd. They were asking to search boots. Is there any legal basis for such behaviour?


  • #3
    juice1304
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭juice1304


    Well they can check you for tax, insurance your licence etc.. If they want to search your car they need probable cause of either a drugs offense or a serious crime either taking place or about to etc.. "without your consent".


  • #4
    jamesr123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭jamesr123


    I'm sure records must be kept? Then again it'd be a pain having to keep all them records. I mean imagine how many people are stopped in an average day/week/month..


  • #5
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #6
    Mikros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭Mikros


    Section 109 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 allows a member of An Garda Siochana stop any vehicle in a public place - there is no requirement for a reasonable suspicion.
    109.—(1) A person driving a vehicle in a public place shall stop the vehicle on being so required by a member of the Garda Síochána.
    (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence.

    Additionally the Gardaí have a common law power to stop motorists at random in order to detect and prevent crime.


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