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What are your personal experiences with the Gardai

lesterburnham

Good or bad

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biko

Yours?

OldMrBrennan83

They're fairly useless if you need them but never had a direct bad experience.

happyoutscan

Majority are good at what they do, some are useless at what they do.

gimli2112

got arrested twice only once I deserved it. They were fine both times but became total asshats months later the second time. Seriously lost respect for them. They have a difficult job.

It's like any section of society some good, some bad some ok.

Kevin Finnerty

There's people riding Garda up and down the country. How personal do you want?

dxhound2005

Patww79 wrote: »

They're fairly useless if you need them but never had a direct bad experience.

Useless = bad experience?

Charlie19

Great bunch of lads.

The Phantom Jipper

Fairly poor. A few months ago we had a drug dealer selling on our road at a fairly consistent time every day. There would be scumbags hanging around and forming a queue at the corner in advance of him coming. The police were informed of this multiple times and given the time and place where this would be happening- it was like feckin Minority Report, all they had to do was send someone down to catch the guy. This went on for several MONTHS about 5 minutes walk away from one of the big Dublin police stations. It was a pathetic effort by the police and it was lucky someone didn't take the law into their own hands.

retro:electro

Only dealings I’ve ever had with Garda is when they’ve stamped my passport forms.
If you find yourself frequented with the Guards more than the average person, well there’s probably a reason for that.

JustAYoungLad

Theyre alright. One of my classmates in secondary dropped out of uni to become a gard. Solid bloke. If other gards are like him then ive no problem

OldMrBrennan83

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Useless = bad experience?

Not really. They're understaffed in a lot of areas, so while that's useless it's not really their fault.

Franz Von Peppercorn

I never see them and I’ve been lucky enough to not be involved with criminality.

SEPT 23 1989

They are there to protect the state

Fcuk around with the state and see what happens

Civilian stuff apart from state revenue collection exercises not so good

NIMAN

Great bunch of lads.

opfleet

A lot of Gardai will never reach their full potential because of zero resources, poor training and lack of respect from the public which causes low morale over time. The same can be said for nurses, teachers etc. Just because a crime goes unsolved does not mean that nothing was done..Yes, some Gardai may be in a bad mood when you deal with them, but bear in mind they may have just come from a suicide, sudden death etc. The only difference between them and you is the uniform. Just trying to do a job.

dxhound2005

Patww79 wrote: »

Not really. They're understaffed in a lot of areas, so while that's useless it's not really their fault.

If you think they are useless when you need them, then that makes for a bad experience. As far as resources go their new chief thinks they are adequate.

Mr Harris said the force was “well resourced” and the “first thing” he was going to do was examine if that money was used effectively and efficiently.

“Before I ask for more, I want to understand exactly how we are using the resources we have.”

opfleet

dxhound2005 wrote: »

If you think they are useless when you need them, then that makes for a bad experience. As far as resources go their new chief thinks they are adequate.

Mr Harris said the force was “well resourced” and the “first thing” he was going to do was examine if that money was used effectively and efficiently.

“Before I ask for more, I want to understand exactly how we are using the resources we have.”

Says a man that only has been in the job a few weeks...No Commissioner will ever come out and tell the truth. They have a close relationship with the Minister. Is a political role.

BBFAN

No-one is going to tell the truth here!

dxhound2005

opfleet wrote: »

Says a man that only has been in the job a few weeks...No Commissioner will ever come out and tell the truth. They have a close relationship with the Minister. Is a political role.

I think he would know more about the resources available than people on the internet.

Wanderer78

Was arrested, detained, strip searched and questioned, but still have enormous respect for them, very difficult job

Trigger Happy

Shifted a ban guard one night. Grand lass.

[Deleted User]

You treat them with respect and they treat you with respect.

Wanderer78

Sleeper12 wrote: »

You treat them with respect and they treat you with respect.

Not necessarily true in life unfortunately

Church on Tuesday

There's a lot of incredibly ignorant Gardaí out there, but in the main they're fairly decent and it's a tough job, especially in the cities, country not so much.

Not perfect, but they're the only line between the decent and the scum.

bsloepro

Couple of years ago my house got burgled. They stole my phone amongst other things, brought it home and took a few photos of themselves with it which got backed up automatically to my google account. A couple of days afterwards I saw this and put it together. I printed out the photos and brought it down to blanchardstown station, thinking this would help the garda catch the fellas who did it. Location services on my google account could help with locating them. So anyway guards in blanch thanked me. I heard nothing back. A month later I look out one morning and my car is gone. Unbeknownst to me they had nicked my spare key during the robbery. Guards come around later (hours later) after I report it stolen. I tell them I have an idea who did it and show them the previous photos - the response “ah we know these fellas, they’re travellers from Damastown, we’ll go around and see if your car is there”. It wasn’t. Long and short of it you can basically give them photos of who robbed you and where they went and still get nowhere.
Separate incident - Roll forward a couple of months and my missus gets knocked off her bike outside the four courts by someone opening the door of a taxi...that pretty rapidly left the scene. One of the security guards from the four courts was very nice to her and helped her get to James hospital. She reported it to the guards, and suggested they requested the CCTV from the four courts. She gets a call a week later from the guards to say they’d spoke to the security in the four courts and there was no CCTV of the incident. She left it at that but then a few days later decides to go down to the four courts and talk to security herself about the CCTV. When she gets down she talks to them “yeah we have the CCTV here, we are waiting to hear from the guards”.

Pretty useless overall would be my general impression. They’re pretty good at the low hanging fruit - busting people for drugs, hassling homeless people on the street, checking tax on cars, water protests, policing demos, evictions, etc, but when it comes to real police work, I’m not so sure.

OldMrBrennan83

dxhound2005 wrote: »

If you think they are useless when you need them, then that makes for a bad experience. As far as resources go their new chief thinks they are adequate.

Mr Harris said the force was “well resourced” and the “first thing” he was going to do was examine if that money was used effectively and efficiently.

“Before I ask for more, I want to understand exactly how we are using the resources we have.”

I'd take anything Agent Harris says with a pinch of salt.

joe swanson

Do a great job in spite of being used as a political football. Under resourced and underpaid.

hairyslug

Not sure whether it's the company I keep but the gardai that I know for social reasons are monumental dicks.

Gardai that I have dealt with for garda related stuff have been generally OK.

[Deleted User]

Wanderer78 wrote:

Not necessarily true in life unfortunately

That's my personal experience

touts

The vast majority are ordinary decent lads and ladies who are doing a **** job with awful pay no resources and no real support. They have been worn down by years of abuse from the criminal class who are protected by the powerful legal industry and self appointed rights groups who all make more money the higher the crime rate. I wouldn't be a guard and I would strongly advise my son never to become one. But I have the highest respect for them.