Community Alert Groups

visatorro

Are many in community alert groups? Do you think they work? How well are they organised/funded?

mahoney_j

visatorro wrote: »

Are many in community alert groups? Do you think they work? How well are they organised/funded?

Yes and there an excellent idea ,any suspicious activity /vehicles in area gets reported to garda and then text message goes out to all signed up members .on the go here for about 7 months and there's a Ling list of people and vehicles reported and crime thefts stopped .dont know how it was started but went to pupluc meeting about it and every house was asked for 20 euro donation to start it ,run it ,put up signs etc .ive had to use it personally with a set of travelling salesmen who got way too pushy in my yard

Base price

Has been operating in our area in Longford for a the last 6 or 7 years, works well. The local resident Garda instigated it originally.

CloughCasey1

Base price wrote: »

Has been operating in our area in Longford for a the last 6 or 7 years, works well. The local resident Garda instigated it originally.

We have one here as well. Links into garda station in Tuam. Get a few txts weekly with cars/vans acting suspiciously with the colour, reg, location and number of occupants

Miname

I work across about eight counties usually projects last 2-3 days and go measuring up at night. We end up taking wrong roads, up lanes and parked up in lay bys waiting for directions. There's only once a squad car stopped and asked me what I was at. There's times too we'd look like travelling sales men. There's no sign writing on the van and there's layers of these community alert areas and I'd have to question their success.

freedominacup

There should be a garda liason committee in your county. That would be a place to start. Much chagrin in this area as there was a fairly serious robbery in terms of the amount taken lately and none of us spotted the activity. Pub security camera picked up the suspect car following the victims to mass and promptly doing a uey back up the road. Car made a couple of visits and wasn't picked up until after the event. Plenty of others were picked up though over the years.

CloughCasey1

Miname wrote: »

I work across about eight counties usually projects last 2-3 days and go measuring up at night. We end up taking wrong roads, up lanes and parked up in lay bys waiting for directions. There's only once a squad car stopped and asked me what I was at. There's times too we'd look like travelling sales men. There's no sign writing on the van and there's layers of these community alert areas and I'd have to question their success.

I get ya 100%. I've only ever been stopped once by a guard on the main st of knocknagoshel. We go up and down roads three or four times looking for the right house and waiting for directions. I often wonder does the reg of the van and be out in those txt alerts after the 3rd or 4th time we pass someones yard looking for a place.

davidk1394

We've one for our community, it's linked in with clonmel garda station. Seems to work fairly well. We had an incident on our farm last Christmas during the day time. Lads came into the yard and took the jfc wheelbarrow, brought down to the quarry and loaded up a motor off an elevator. Wheeled the wheelbarrow about 200yards and pushed the barrow down a dyke into one of our fields and try to load it into the back of an almera van. We got most of the reg and colour but they wouldn't issue a notice