illegal to video Gardai

Samuel T. Cogley · 17-09-2018 07:03PM

Fann Linn wrote: »

Well considering the Gardai lost a farmyard gate in the du Plantier case they're liable to lose anything.

The way evidence is stored in this country in very serious cases is a total joke.

SeaFields · 17-09-2018 07:03PM

Making it illegal to post the personal details on social media would probavly achieve what is being sought rather than an outright ban on filming.

Timberrrrrrrr · 17-09-2018 07:04PM

Tell me how wrote: »

Why do you think Gardai should have to wear cameras?
Should teachers? Ambulance personal? Nightclub door men?

I can see the benefits in them wearing them but am curious about the "should" part.

They do.

Tell me how · 17-09-2018 07:06PM

Fann Linn wrote: »

Traffic wardens wear them as do ISPCA inspectors, and going further afield most of the UK police forces also have them. What's so precious about our force?

It's the should element I am curious about. Should then other public servants?
Who shouldn't have to wear them?

Tell me how · 17-09-2018 07:07PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

They do.

Some do. Not obligatory afaik.

odetooi · 17-09-2018 07:07PM

Tell me how wrote: »

It's the should element I am curious about. Should then other public servants?
Who shouldn't have to wear them?

Should

Captain Obvious · 17-09-2018 07:08PM

Hitman3000 wrote: »

Other professionals don't have the same power as a guard.
Imagine if the guards at the Jobstown protests had body cams with built in mics. There would have been alot less lies told by certain members of the force.

or the protestors.

Tell me how · 17-09-2018 07:09PM

odetooi wrote: »

For the protection of themselves and the public. Accountability on both sides.

So should private sector workers? For accountability?

Are Am Eye · 17-09-2018 07:09PM

SeaFields wrote: »

Making it illegal to post the personal details on social media would probavly achieve what is being sought rather than an outright ban on filming.

That's meaningless as it is unenforceable.

Fann Linn · 17-09-2018 07:11PM

Tell me how wrote: »

It's the should element I am curious about. Should then other public servants?
Who shouldn't have to wear them?

Not really worried about who shouldn't wear them. However, in light of the antics of some Gardai, plus the authority they use plus the most recent report from the Irish Civil Liberties crowd, I'm quite comfortable if AGS wear body cams, and if the public in defence can tape the Gardai.

odetooi · 17-09-2018 07:11PM

Tell me how wrote: »

So should private sector workers? For accountability?

Yes. Everyone should. And at all times.

98q76e12hrflnk · 17-09-2018 07:12PM

Terrible idea.

Sure their corrupt enough with giving them more ways to hide it.

Timberrrrrrrr · 17-09-2018 07:12PM

Tell me how wrote: »

Some do. Not obligatory afaik.

Depends on the venue, surely guards wearing bodycams would be good for all involved?

endacl · 17-09-2018 07:14PM

odetooi wrote: »

For the protection of themselves and the public. Accountability on both sides.

Teachers should be re assigned to some other public duties like administration work while schools are on long holidays so they make up the full year of work but that's a different thread

Is there no dedicated teacher bashing thread?

In fairness, one side benefit of my effectively-almost-five-months off every year and ridiculously good defined benefits pension is seeing posts like that. Because it really gets under the skin of people who’d be bothered posting posts like that.

Tell me how · 17-09-2018 07:14PM

odetooi wrote: »

Yes. Everyone should. And at all times.

You make a valid argument. Have you a podcast or daily email I can subscribe to?

Welcome to Boards by the way.

Tell me how · 17-09-2018 07:16PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Depends on the venue, surely guards wearing bodycams would be good for all involved?

I can see the benefits in some circumstances. It was the suggestion that they "should have to" that I was curious about.

I think it implies an inherent distrust in the members (not getting in to justification or otherwise of that here) and if so, where do you stop with the 'should'? Hence query about other professions.

Hitman3000 · 17-09-2018 07:16PM

Captain Obvious wrote:

or the protestors.

True, but you expect the guards to tell the truth under oath. Something they failed in when on the stand.

odetooi · 17-09-2018 07:18PM

Tell me how wrote: »

You make a valid argument. Have you a podcast or daily email I can subscribe to?

Welcome to Boards by the way.

Thank you.
Should

kneemos · 17-09-2018 07:22PM

Shud.

wexie · 17-09-2018 07:23PM

Tell me how wrote: »

I think it implies an inherent distrust in the members.

I don't think that's what bodycams are about though, or at least not for me. They just provide an objective account of what actually happened.

There's no favour there and I'd imagine that over time the amount of cases where it goes in the gards or the publics favour will probably be fairly equal.

(on the assumption of course that the bodycam footage is treated as sacrosanct and not edited etc. etc.)

I guess a better way to put it is that the wish for bodycams (in my case) expresses an equal distrust of the public as of AGS

Gatling · 17-09-2018 07:24PM

When it's gotten to the point people are posting pictures of Gardai on social media and asking people to share and identify them , along with home addresses and where their kids go to school ,
It's no longer about Claiming Garda corruption but trying to organise lynching under some attempt to get back a Gardai by well known scumbags ,
And add the current trend of ramming a phone or camera in a Guard's face while pushing and screaming at them to claim police brutality

FrKurtFahrt · 17-09-2018 07:25PM

If it becomes illegal to video Gardai, and someone DOES video a Garda acting outside of his powers, does the the video evidence become inadmissible in Court?

Fann Linn · 17-09-2018 07:29PM

Gatling wrote: »

When it's gotten to the point people are posting pictures of Gardai on social media and asking people to share and identify them , along with home addresses and where their kids go to school ,
It's no longer about Claiming Garda corruption but trying to organise lynching under some attempt to get back a Gardai by well known scumbags ,
And add the current trend of ramming a phone or camera in a Guard's face while pushing and screaming at them to claim police brutality

I'm sure any well known scumbag knows the whereabouts and lifestyle of whatever Garda he or she is after.

Wearing a bodycam however would actually garner that Garda some further protection.

Hitman3000 · 17-09-2018 07:29PM

I remember a case a couple of years ago where a Garda turned the on street surveillance camera away several times from an incident where a couple of members of the force were getting heavy handed with a young lad . Happened in Waterford or Wexford. She got suspended for her actions but reinstated after a court case.

Roger Hassenforder · 17-09-2018 07:31PM

It's completely unenforceable.

Driving along with your dash cam, pass a cop directing traffic or dealing with a motoring issue? An offence?

videoing an innocent event like a parade on your phone, PC Plod strolls into shot, an offence?

Be easier to ban cameras!

kneemos · 17-09-2018 07:33PM

Gatling wrote: »

When it's gotten to the point people are posting pictures of Gardai on social media and asking people to share and identify them , along with home addresses and where their kids go to school ,
It's no longer about Claiming Garda corruption but trying to organise lynching under some attempt to get back a Gardai by well known scumbags ,
And add the current trend of ramming a phone or camera in a Guard's face while pushing and screaming at them to claim police brutality

It's just internet gibberish.

Odhinn · 17-09-2018 07:34PM

Hitman3000 wrote: »

True, but you expect the guards to tell the truth under oath. Something they failed in when on the stand.

The notion a gardas word is some infallible rock of honesty should go the same way the notion applied to a priests word went.

Gatling · 17-09-2018 07:34PM

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

It's completely unenforceable.

Driving along with your dash cam, pass a cop directing traffic or dealing with a motoring issue? An offence?

videoing an innocent event like a parade on your phone, PC Plod strolls into shot, an offence?

Be easier to ban cameras!

More likely it will be aimed at idiots antagonists intentionally interfering with a guard arresting or talking to an individual

Heebie · 17-09-2018 07:35PM

It's a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea.
The Gardai would end up completely out of control.
The Justice minister should be fired for making such an evil statement.

Fann Linn · 17-09-2018 07:37PM

Gatling wrote: »

More likely it will be aimed at idiots antagonists intentionally interfering with a guard arresting or taking to an individual

I suppose the garda alone will decide who is doing the antagonising. Safe in the knowledge that they're not being filmed.

Excuse me for being sceptical.

illegal to video Gardai

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