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Question Teenage Profiling Legal?

  • 17-10-2017 1:44pm
    #1
    Orange Juice 935
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭


    On Saturday I was in Tesco getting some supplies and food (for the Hurricane) in case the power went out for more than a day.

    As i was shopping i noticed a group of five teens (around 16 or 17) shopping with a trolley filled with the usual stuff (food, house supplies) The thing that caught my eye was the Tesco security guard behind them.

    Thought nothing of it until i saw them again, the guard was still behind them.

    Clear as day, profiling and it seemed like the teens knew about it.

    Is this legal under Irish Law?


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  • #2
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    My son 25 tall with a beard and backpack has been followed around reasons. It got so bad one day he turned around to the guy and asked him to stop.

    I don't know if teenage profiling is a thing legal or not but maybe depending on where the shop is or this guy's experience or their behaviour he may have felt entitled to watch them


  • #3
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Yes, it's legal. Where profiling becomes legally problematic is when guards start exercising police powers like stopping, searching, etc, based on profiling people by age, gender, social class, ethnicity. Simply watching people isn't the exercise of any power, and doesn't stop people from going about their business, or restrain them in other ways. It may piss them off or make them feel uncomfortable, but you don't get any legal remedy for that.


  • #4
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,806 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Orange Juice 935 wrote: »
    Clear as day, profiling and it seemed like the teens knew about it.

    Is this legal under Irish Law?

    No specific law against profiling, but it could sail a bit close to discrimination if the profiling was done in such a way as to "discourage" the targeted group from visiting.

    You might get away with doing this against teenagers, but other groups might raise an issue.


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