Garda Checks

Just been stopped for the third time, in three days, at the same time & place. There must be a rota of checkpoint sites

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

The missus was stopped going to and coming from work today.
Meanwhile in Enniscorthy a local amenity is busier than it ever was as people drive to it,park up and go for a walk.Ignoring the rules completely and not a Garda seen.

Did you report it or feel that was unnecessary because Gardai can be everywhere at all times?

what would the response be if you did say it to the Guard that stopped you, I wonder?

Deleted User wrote: »

Did they take down details of reason stated for travel and number of car occupants? That’s what they did with the local checkpoint I ran into on Monday - didn’t note car Reg but definitely noted my response and checked and noted number of car occupants- I reckon this will all be number crunched somewhere in the coming days.
I’ve noticed A LOT more occupants in cars of late- like parent and 2-3 teenagers sort of thing- reckon cabin fever is happening out there and people are using the car as a way to get out for a few hours

Nope not on any occasion. The Guard today looked desperately bored

tis be loverly weather for it though

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

the question was more for niner, how would he respond if someone asked him 'what are you stopping me for, when theres a crowd down the road there...?'

This is the point. The checkpoints aren't reducing travel. The Gardai would be of much better use patrolling & enforcing social distancing.

https://twitter.com/MallowNews/status/1253047180476243972?s=20

Paddygreen wrote: »

The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

How about inserting an explosive device into every smart phone and if people go beyond 2km then the phone explodes and blows them to smithereens.

Paddygreen wrote: »

The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

Catch 22... easily avoided by going for a walk and leaving phone at home.

Iif there were enough Gardai to check that people were always carrying their phones we'd have enough Gardai to enforce the current regs.

Paddygreen wrote: »

The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

Fucck, with a capital F, that kind of surveillance.

Paddygreen wrote: »

The South Korean government tracked peoples smart phones. We need similar tracking measures here. If someone strays beyond 2km at walking pace a red flag could go up and law enforcement could intercept knowing where the person is in real time. Same goes for essential shopping, if someone isn't in their nearest town or supermarket a red flag could go up . Make it illegal for people to go anywhere without their phones.

That's fantasy man.
And how exactly did the South Koreans track?

So many variables. Wouldn't work.
Apart from the obvious leave your phone at home. But how track?

Cell phone triangulation? That only works within a few meters. Go into an apartment complex and it will say "150 people all together" - that doesn't work. What about GDPR over here? Does the likes of Vodafone even have systems in place to mass track and relay thousands upon thousands of cell usage in real time back?

Google phones tracking? Yes Google does track android phones. That's how traffic jams are displayed in real time information on certain apps. Not everyone has an android phone.

The government "magically" installs app on everyone's phone? That only happens in the movies lol.

And after all that. If you found a way to make it work. Someone just leaves their phone at home or switches it off. Doesn't mate sense dude.

Discodog wrote: »

In any event the 2km achieves little & will hopefully be gone in a week or so along with the need for checkpoints.

Eh, have you seen how many people have been caught by these checkpoints??
They should be a permanent sight on our roads with the amount that fail to be road legal. (Garda stations don't have social distancing so they HAVE to be on the roads. (That won't change after May 5th either!)

Herb Powell wrote: »

Fucck, with a capital F, that kind of surveillance.

Most people happily give facebook/Google etc that information every day without realizing, they use it for ads

Why the outrage when the government want to use that information to curb a pandemic?

Discodog wrote: »

I haven't seen the official figures. Can you give a link to them? I have seen a very small number of headline offences.

Neither the Gardai nor the wage bill will allow 12 hour shifts to continue just to tell, one in a hundred drivers, to turn around.

They should be focusing on social distancing not people sitting safely in cars.

This. The whole emphasis on stopping people travelling by road is inexplicable when we are next to bumping into each other in supermarkets and on the footpaths.