What are your personal experiences with the Gardai

Criminal informer · 10-11-2018 09:22PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Shifted a ban guard one night. Grand lass.

The important question, did she have a big arse?

I'll get my coat.

Captain Obvious · 10-11-2018 09:25PM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

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

Good night in Copper's or bad night on the street?

Folkstonian · 10-11-2018 09:27PM

Don’t know any personally but I have lots of respect for them.

They must have saint-like patience to deal with the throngs off curb side lawyers they encounter when dealing with things in Dublin.

Always makes me laugh seeing videos of these scummers apparently bestowing the guards with their comprehensive knowledge of legislation and policing tactics every time someone is arrested unfairly, which is of course all the time

punisher5112 · 10-11-2018 09:30PM

The pay isn't as bad as it's made out to be, depends on service and whether they change ranks and units etc.

I have had some good and some bad.

The worst was getting brought 4 times to court by one in Pierse Street after a taxi driver rugby tackled the front of my vehicle in stopped traffic.

He screamed help for 2 mins till 2 came running out as it was outside the front door of the station.

Statements were altered and also duplication between 2 guards where one done both and one wasn't even signed.

I had witnesses who could tell them what happened but they were never called and the guard it seems had some issue with me or knew the taxi driver and wanted to cost me money.

This lad Niall is a corrupt as fcuk guard and shouldn't be in that job.

Very dangerous guy and hopefully never see him again.

I know a few and friends with 2 and get on great most of the time with any I meet so my bad experience is a rare occurrence so I can't say oh I hate cops etc.....

Most are down to earth and will respect you if given respect back.

NickNickleby · 10-11-2018 09:36PM

touts wrote: »

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.

I totally agree with you, but on the bolded bit.... my own son expressed an interest a few years ago, and I had the same concerns you would have and said as much. However, in discussion with my wife about it, I realised that he would be a great Garda, with his sense of right and wrong and he is the type to do such a job diligently and without fear or favour - I mean , what more could you ask for in a Garda. Anyway he chose a different path and I'm not sorry.

He has a close pal in the Gardai and that friend is a fine young man, as are all these young men and women I'm sure. (no doubt, the exception proves the rule, but in my three score years and a bit, I've only met one).

r93kaey5p2izun · 10-11-2018 09:42PM

My experiences as an individual asking for their help having been the victim of crime have been extremely poor, as was my experience with them throwing their weight around and abusing their position when I lived in a certain area. My experiences as a teacher asking them to come to the school and give a talk were good - same individual involved in one case and he was completely different in his attitude towards me as a teacher versus his attitude towards me as a resident of a particular area. A disgusting hypocrite. As an organisation I have zero faith in them and would no longer call them unless required to do so for insurance purposes. I feel sorry for decent members who discover what they have joined and are just trying to do a decent job.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 10-11-2018 09:46PM

Pretty decent to be honest. Dealing with one at the moment re an issue who’s leaving no stone unturned.

elperello · 10-11-2018 09:50PM

A while ago something belonging to me was stolen from someone else's property.
I had to go to GS to make a statement.
First off you have to meet the Investigating Garda any old Garda won't do.
Between their shifts and time off I finally got an appointment at 9pm one night.
Brought into interview room. Grim place with furniture bolted to the floor.
Apparently that is standard so miscreants can't throw chairs about the place if they get upset. Sort of took the gloss off the design precaution to see a bicycle leaning against the wall beside me.
It was like helping a kid with homework as I had to tell the story and it was all written down in longhand biro on sheets of A4. Crossing out spelling mistakes etc. Explaining detail of item stolen, make, type, serial no. etc.
All had to be read back to me solemnly and then signed. Pulse no. issued.

Never heard another word about it.

There was no insurance claim.
Several other people lost property in the same incident so I presume this procedure was repeated for each one.

Really as an initial report of a theft it could have been done by email with follow up and actual interview if necessary as a second step.

suicide_circus · 10-11-2018 09:57PM

The odds are stacked against police anywhere being "sound".

El_Bee · 10-11-2018 10:00PM

if you drug tested every gardai going on duty on a monday morning you'd have some very interesting results.

Autecher · 10-11-2018 10:01PM

Myself, some friends and some family have all over the years had some experience with the Guards as the victims of various crimes. We are nice, law-abiding, employed tax paying citizens and the exact word to use describing all of those experiences is disinterest. They just don't give a shít.

Dyr · 10-11-2018 10:07PM

I avoid them like the plague.

Captain Obvious · 10-11-2018 10:08PM

El_Bee wrote: »

if you drug tested every gardai going on duty on a monday morning you'd have some very interesting results.

There'd be 100,000 Gardaí on duty?

lotsobear · 10-11-2018 10:11PM

I know a few on both a personal level and through my job and the majority have very little interest. A lot of them put more effort into their nixers on the side than their full time job. Retired guards from the previous generation though in my option are 10 times worse, they came from an era with no oversight and still think they have influence.

Davidth88 · 10-11-2018 10:14PM

By and large good. Totally let down by very poor leadership imo.

Yer Da sells Avon · 10-11-2018 10:25PM

A few years ago, I was almost shoved to the ground (saved by my low centre of gravity) by one, for the crime of walking too slowly past a protest on Kildare Street. Other than that, my experiences with the filth have been entirely positive. Even on occasions where I was caught speeding, and probably deserved a bollocking, they were perfectly respectful and polite towards me.

Allinall · 10-11-2018 10:31PM

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

A few years ago, I was almost shoved to the ground (saved by my low centre of gravity) by one, for the crime of walking too slowly past a protest on Kildare Street. Other than that, my experiences with the filth have been entirely positive. Even on occasions where I was caught speeding, and probably deserved a bollocking, they were perfectly respectful and polite towards me.

Yet you still call them the filth.

Charming.

notsoyoungwan · 10-11-2018 10:33PM

Got pulled for speeding once and got a horrendous bollocking from a guard, it was totally OTT and unprofessional- to the extent that when I went to the station the next day to show my licence and insurance cert, his colleague who had been there the previous day acknowledged he’d behaved appallingly.

I’ve never had to deal with them in a personal capacity other than that.

Have dealt with plenty in a professional capacity and have by and large found them to be decent people trying to do a job for which they are under-resourced and under-trained.

paska · 10-11-2018 10:36PM

I work in Retail with some food offerings. When it comes to shoplifters or unruly kids refusing to leave the premises. They are useless.

Yer Da sells Avon · 10-11-2018 10:45PM

Allinall wrote: »

Yet you still call them the filth.

Charming.

Bloody auto-correct.

Laois_Man · 10-11-2018 10:53PM

I remember years ago playing a soccer friendly against them. We beat them 4-2 and both times they scored, we all made snorting noises at them. We thought we were hilarious, For some reason, they didn't! :rolleyes:

11-11-2018 12:05AM

I've been pulled in a few times for speeding and they were fine. It was very much a case of "now young lady you've been driving a bit too fast" and me going "oh I am sorry Guard"
Got stopped in the North once for I'm not sure what. I was told it was because I was driving too close to the car in front. But sure I was opening a bottle of water and box of panadol at the same time so God knows what I was at. He was part of the "mind how you go lassy" brigade as well.

And something I notice is how attractive they all are!

punisher5112 · 11-11-2018 12:08AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I've been pulled in a few times for speeding and they were fine. It was very much a case of "now young lady you've been driving a bit too fast" and me going "oh I am sorry Guard"
Got stopped in the North once for I'm not sure what. I was told it was because I was driving too close to the car in front. But sure I was opening a bottle of water and box of panadol at the same time so God knows what I was at. He was part of the "mind how you go lassy" brigade as well.

And something I notice is how attractive they all are!

Were you showing off the assets

11-11-2018 12:10AM

punisher5112 wrote: »

Were you showing off the assets

Well I might have put on fresh lip gloss. Every little helps.

punisher5112 · 11-11-2018 12:12AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Well I might have put on fresh lip gloss. Every little helps.

Ohhhhhhh ya have me shivering...,.

;-)

I've tried that but every time I got pulled it was a guy...... Just shows ya I have no luck....

Saying that was walking through town the other day and got a lovely hello off a fine one.... Lady of course.

11-11-2018 12:14AM

punisher5112 wrote: »

Ohhhhhhh ya have me shivering...,.

;-)

I've tried that but every time I got pulled it was a guy...... Just shows ya I have no luck....

Saying that was walking through town the other day and got a lovely hello off a fine one.... Lady of course.

If you think the Guard is gay then you could pretend to be too. Worth a try.

newnamexx · 11-11-2018 12:21AM

I got a lot of hassle from them when I rode motorbikes. But I used the overly polite card every time I was stopped. Found most of them sound. Besides they were often looking for bike thieves so could hardly fault them.
That said the whole rotten edifice needs reform. Hope that Drew Harris does some good.

punisher5112 · 11-11-2018 12:25AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If you think the Guard is gay then you could pretend to be too. Worth a try.

No not gay that's what I was getting at.....

Jack Moore · 11-11-2018 12:29AM

Garda are sound in general theres a couple of power trippers buy they are mostly young.
Needed help a few years ago with people bothering my father and they did loads to help
The funniest thing was that my brother and me were outside his house we were waiting for either the scunbags that we’re threatening him or the Garda to turn up. So this Garda in plain clothes turns up in a old van but we thought he was a scumbag
He made some comment to us
I copped he thought we were the scumbags
My brother was starting to interact with him and I just went STOP
I said your a Garda aren’t you and he showed his badge
I said I called you and this is my brother
He reached on his pocket and said stand down stand down
Good thing the brother didn’t hop him really

So there were another six lads
All plain clothes and we all confronted the scum later on that day
They were sound and really helpful.

I’ve been pulled for speeding or once years ago I was cautioned for being a drunk idiot

Generally that was very good as well I mean I was in the wrong butvthey didn’t make a meal of it.
I’m proud of our police force.

Get Real · 11-11-2018 12:29AM

elperello wrote: »

A while ago something belonging to me was stolen from someone else's property.
I had to go to GS to make a statement.
First off you have to meet the Investigating Garda any old Garda won't do.
Between their shifts and time off I finally got an appointment at 9pm one night.
Brought into interview room. Grim place with furniture bolted to the floor.
Apparently that is standard so miscreants can't throw chairs about the place if they get upset. Sort of took the gloss off the design precaution to see a bicycle leaning against the wall beside me.
It was like helping a kid with homework as I had to tell the story and it was all written down in longhand biro on sheets of A4. Crossing out spelling mistakes etc. Explaining detail of item stolen, make, type, serial no. etc.
All had to be read back to me solemnly and then signed. Pulse no. issued.

Never heard another word about it.

There was no insurance claim.
Several other people lost property in the same incident so I presume this procedure was repeated for each one.

Really as an initial report of a theft it could have been done by email with follow up and actual interview if necessary as a second step.

That's not really the guards themselves as such, just the outdated ways and reluctance of govt to fund a proper system. It's quite archaic.

What are your personal experiences with the Gardai

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