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Protective Custody

  • 28-08-2017 11:54pm
    #1
    Count Marcula
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭


    What is Garda protective custody like?


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  • #2
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    SFAIK there is no power to take anybody into protective custody. The guards may provide you with protection in a particular place, but you are free to leave at any time, so you're not in custody.

    Since protection can be provided in any place, there are no standard conditions in which protection is provided. If the guards protect you in your own home, that's a lot like being in home. If you leave home and are put up, or put yourself up, in a bed-and-breakfast, that's a lot like living in a bed and breakfast. And so forth.

    It would be unusual - unheard of, probably - for someone to live in a police station or prison for the purpose of being protected. The special branch do have a couple of safe houses where they can place very high-value witnesses, etc, for short periods. By all accounts they are comfortable but basic.


  • #3
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    SFAIK there is no power to take anybody into protective custody.
    I get the impression that breach of the peace has been used to protect (err, unwise) individuals that were under immediate physical threat from a group, where arresting and removing the one from the scene is the least worst scenario.


  • #4
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Count Marcula wrote: »
    What is Garda protective custody like?

    Thread under moderator review.

    OP, please don't open any more new threads in this forum until a moderator of this forum says that you can go ahead to do so.


  • #5
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    The other end of protective custody - they beat you to stop going into a burning building: https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0830/901055-cork-mallow-fire-deaths/


  • #6
    mynamejeff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    Victor wrote: »
    The other end of protective custody - they beat you to stop going into a burning building: https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0830/901055-cork-mallow-fire-deaths/

    some people need to be beaten it seems


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