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Gendarmes

  • 17-12-2015 5:48pm
    #1
    esforum
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    Apologies if its been done, did a search and didnt find it.

    Would there be an interest in compbinging Gardai and army into a Gendarme force that could police under normal circumstances but also provide the military for defence and UN, etc? You could also have the airforce and Navy involved as in the navy does fisheries as it is and the air corp supply the pilot for the Gardai already.

    12,000 Gardai + 8,000 military and now you have 20,000 gendarmes. Would certainly shore up the lack of numbers in the Gardai anyway.

    I realise it would by no means be a smooth move but its been done, forces are merged and replaced / disbanded all the time


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  • #2
    discus
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    Soldiers do not make good policemen. They barely make good peacekeepers!


  • #3
    galwaycyclist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭galwaycyclist


    I have seen the view expressed elsewhere that the PDF is in essence an over-equipped gendarmerie. The titles used for some entities can sometimes distract attention from their essential nature.


  • #4
    galwaycyclist
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    I should also point out that although forces like the French Gendarmerie or the Spanish Guardia Civil are police forces under the military chain of command, these complement, and do not replace, other police forces that are under the civil authorities.


  • #5
    BigDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭BigDuffman


    discus wrote: »
    Soldiers do not make good policemen. They barely make good peacekeepers!

    Unfortunately that view is part of (a particularly leftist) social theory and not real world relevant. It's also misunderstood by a lot of people. It does not refer to a soldier as a human being, it refers to the soldier as a component part of a military. In which case the statement can be said to be true. A soldier does not absorb and permanently imbue all the characteristics of a "warrior". Whilst a soldier and a policeman might look at a situation differently, that is only due to training and experience. Soldiers are not psychologically conditioned (the argument if they are psychologically effected is a different one) to the point whereby they cannot work effectively in a policing capacity. With the relevant training they most certainly could make good policemen, if you look to the US and UK a lot of ex servicemen join the Police force after retirement.


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