An Garda Síochána - COVID19

Discodog · 14-05-2020 06:16PM

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Gloves arent really needed if you are washing your hands and using sanitiser frequently. Most people wearing gloves seem to completely ignore the most important parts of safety. They rub their faces then touch objects, etc. climb over you in the shop and generally just behave like morons all because 'hey, Im wearing gloves'

Gardai could become super spreaders

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/expert-calls-for-wider-adoption-of-face-masks-and-warns-gardai-could-become-super-spreaders-998878.html

14-05-2020 07:21PM

Discodog wrote: »

Gardai could become super spreaders

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/expert-calls-for-wider-adoption-of-face-masks-and-warns-gardai-could-become-super-spreaders-998878.html

I put money on this, Garda management will issue instructions for members to wear face masks, shortly after the authorities recommend the general public wear masks in public.
Garda rep bodies have been calling for members to be issued with masks, management have said members cannot wear masks.

alta stare · 14-05-2020 10:58PM

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Gloves arent really needed if you are washing your hands and using sanitiser frequently. Most people wearing gloves seem to completely ignore the most important parts of safety. They rub their faces then touch objects, etc. climb over you in the shop and generally just behave like morons all because 'hey, Im wearing gloves'

I came across a checkpoint recently and a rude member of our police force wanted to see my licence after he did not like the answer i gave him for me travelling. I held it up for him and he went to take it off me until i pulled it back and asked where his gloves were. He quickly retracted his hand because he knew after all the ****e talk he just gave me about the risk of spreading covid19 his lecture has just been pissed out into the wind. How do i know where his hand had been or if he had been sanitising them?

The majority of Gardai have been nice and professional during this crisis but there is always a guarantee of a few **** manning checkpoints.

McCrack · 15-05-2020 09:05AM

alta stare wrote: »

I came across a checkpoint recently and a rude member of our police force wanted to see my licence after he did not like the answer i gave him for me travelling. I held it up for him and he went to take it off me until i pulled it back and asked where his gloves were. He quickly retracted his hand because he knew after all the ****e talk he just gave me about the risk of spreading covid19 his lecture has just been pissed out into the wind. How do i know where his hand had been or if he had been sanitising them?

The majority of Gardai have been nice and professional during this crisis but there is always a guarantee of a few **** manning checkpoints.

Well it's a falsehood to think it would be safer if the Garda had gloves on him/her...unless they change the gloves after every interaction which is not going to happen. Gloves outside a medical setting are pointless. Your point to the Garda was also pointless

kowloonkev · 15-05-2020 10:06AM

alta stare wrote: »

I came across a checkpoint recently and a rude member of our police force wanted to see my licence after he did not like the answer i gave him for me travelling. I held it up for him and he went to take it off me until i pulled it back and asked where his gloves were. He quickly retracted his hand because he knew after all the ****e talk he just gave me about the risk of spreading covid19 his lecture has just been pissed out into the wind. How do i know where his hand had been or if he had been sanitising them?

The majority of Gardai have been nice and professional during this crisis but there is always a guarantee of a few **** manning checkpoints.

I must have missed the part where he was being a wanker?

There is always that proportion of society who gets offended if the Gardai don't always take your work at face value. You sound like one of those.

15-05-2020 11:40AM

alta stare wrote: »

I came across a checkpoint recently and a rude member of our police force wanted to see my licence after he did not like the answer i gave him for me travelling. I held it up for him and he went to take it off me until i pulled it back and asked where his gloves were. He quickly retracted his hand because he knew after all the ****e talk he just gave me about the risk of spreading covid19 his lecture has just been pissed out into the wind. How do i know where his hand had been or if he had been sanitising them?

The majority of Gardai have been nice and professional during this crisis but there is always a guarantee of a few **** manning checkpoints.

He wasn't a wanker for asking for your license and he could be a dirty git with or without covid. He could also have produced gloves because most carry them.

I suspect your attitude contributed to that situation more than his considering the amount of smug that's coming from your post

15-05-2020 11:42AM

Discodog wrote: »

Gardai could become super spreaders

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/expert-calls-for-wider-adoption-of-face-masks-and-warns-gardai-could-become-super-spreaders-998878.html

And? Not even remotely relevant to my comment about the use of gloves.

is_that_so · 15-05-2020 11:49AM

Discodog wrote: »

Gardai could become super spreaders

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/expert-calls-for-wider-adoption-of-face-masks-and-warns-gardai-could-become-super-spreaders-998878.html

Academic in his car has a panic attack! What level of risk actually exists according to him?

15-05-2020 01:28PM

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Wouldnt it have been easier to simple ask yourself how the Gardai can socially distance in a car instead of asking us?

Gardai must walk together, they must work together. Its not possible to go solo most of the time. They overlap in the workspace because of the limited space and the work involved.

You can socially distance because its leisure and your alone. The amount of people off work is because social distancing in work is a lot harder. Its very difficult when a junkie is spitting at you and you have to arrest him

A screen between front and back seats of car can be put up, not unlike what has gone up in shops recently, you see it also in some taxis. And rather than the two Garda sitting in the front, one can sit in the back.

I understand they must walk together, but can they not walk together two metres apart?

alta stare · 15-05-2020 02:18PM

McCrack wrote: »

Well it's a falsehood to think it would be safer if the Garda had gloves on him/her...unless they change the gloves after every interaction which is not going to happen. Gloves outside a medical setting are pointless. Your point to the Garda was also pointless

Was it? He gave a lecture about a virus and the spreading of it yet he wanted to take my licence in his bare hands...... hypocrisy.

alta stare · 15-05-2020 02:20PM

kowloonkev wrote: »

I must have missed the part where he was being a wanker?

There is always that proportion of society who gets offended if the Gardai don't always take your work at face value. You sound like one of those.

He was being a wanker. He had an attitude the second my window came down. I had not uttered a word until he started mouthing off.

alta stare · 15-05-2020 02:25PM

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

He wasn't a wanker for asking for your license and he could be a dirty git with or without covid. He could also have produced gloves because most carry them.

I suspect your attitude contributed to that situation more than his considering the amount of smug that's coming from your post

I never said he was a wanker for asking for my licence. I had no problem in giving it to him. His attitude from the get go was him being a wanker. His lecture about spreading the virus was mute the second he wanted to take my licence off me without him wearing gloves. He is frontline he should know better. It is no good producing gloves after he was already committed to taking the licence bare handed. He knew this hence why is hand was withdrawn very quickly.

Again i did not have an attitude. He was on the attack from the get go. He was being a prick and i chose not to listen to it. I questioned him as i am allowed to. He knew he was in the wrong when he took away his hand and let me go without any further questions. Pretty simple to be honest.

I have passed loads of checkpoints without much issue so it was just him being a prick.

Witcher · 15-05-2020 02:28PM

alta stare wrote: »

I never said he was a wanker for asking for my licence. I had no problem in giving it to him. His attitude from the get go was him being a wanker. His lecture about spreading the virus was mute the second he wanted to take my licence off me without him wearing gloves. He is frontline he should know better. It is no good producing gloves after he was already committed to taking the licence bare handed. He knew this hence why is hand was withdrawn very quickly.

Again i did not have an attitude. He was on the attack from the get go. He was being a prick and i chose not to listen to it. I questioned him as i am allowed to. He knew he was in the wrong when he took away his hand and let me go without any further questions. Pretty simple to be honest.

I have passed loads of checkpoints with much issue so it was just him being a prick.

We only have testimony from one party here yet I think we'd still all agree the prick was inside the car.

Allinall · 15-05-2020 02:31PM

alta stare wrote: »

I never said he was a wanker for asking for my licence. I had no problem in giving it to him. His attitude from the get go was him being a wanker. His lecture about spreading the virus was mute the second he wanted to take my licence off me without him wearing gloves. He is frontline he should know better. It is no good producing gloves after he was already committed to taking the licence bare handed. He knew this hence why is hand was withdrawn very quickly.

Again i did not have an attitude. He was on the attack from the get go. He was being a prick and i chose not to listen to it. I questioned him as i am allowed to. He knew he was in the wrong when he took away his hand and let me go without any further questions. Pretty simple to be honest.

I have passed loads of checkpoints without much issue so it was just him being a prick.

How would him wearing gloves had made any difference?

alta stare · 15-05-2020 02:33PM

Witcher wrote: »

We only have testimony from one party here yet I think we'd still all agree the prick was inside the car.

Oooh the big man has arrived. Edgy. Did that make you feel better me ol pal.

There is some fairly sad narrow minded individuals on this website at times.

alta stare · 15-05-2020 02:35PM

Allinall wrote: »

How would him wearing gloves had made any difference?

How does me driving my car and not actually getting out of it increase the risk of spreading the virus? It doesn't same as him wearing gloves doesnt either.....he thought he could be a prick and that id just shrink up and go along with his rude attitude...i dont think so.

Ill wait now for the idiots to come along any moment now.......

Allinall · 15-05-2020 02:38PM

alta stare wrote: »

How does me driving my car and not actually getting out of it increase the risk of spreading the virus? It doesn't same as him wearing gloves doesnt either.....he thought he could be a prick and that id just shrink up and go along with his rude attitude...i dont think so.

Ill wait now for the idiots to come along any moment now.......

Way to not answer a question.

Your first post said that you wouldn't hand over your licence because he wasn't wearing gloves.

Just curious as to what difference you think gloves would have made.

Tokyo · 15-05-2020 03:17PM

alta stare wrote: »

Ill wait now for the idiots to come along any moment now.......

Mod: You called? Further digs like this will get you a threadban.

15-05-2020 04:35PM

alta stare wrote: »

How does me driving my car and not actually getting out of it increase the risk of spreading the virus? .

If you were going anywhere other then places outlined in legislation, then you were breaking the law.

alta stare · 15-05-2020 06:39PM

mike_ie wrote: »

Mod: You called? Further digs like this will get you a threadban.

jesus im worried now because i could get a ban off a thread on boards..grow up big man.

If you want to be petty then have a read of the posts i was referred to in. Good man.

alta stare · 15-05-2020 06:42PM

bubblypop wrote: »

If you were going anywhere other then places outlined in legislation, then you were breaking the law.

You nor anyone else here know what i was doing nor does it matter to ye the fact of the matter is i was going to a place i am more than allowed to. I met an ignorant rude member of our police force on my way. It isnt that hard to comprehend yet some narrow minded fools on here think they can duck in and start throwing things around just because they feel all high and mighty. Its gas all the same. Little children wouldn't carry on like some of them do.

McCrack · 15-05-2020 06:51PM

alta stare wrote: »

You nor anyone else here know what i was doing nor does it matter to ye the fact of the matter is i was going to a place i am more than allowed to. I met an ignorant rude member of our police force on my way. It isnt that hard to comprehend yet some narrow minded fools on here think they can duck in and start throwing things around just because they feel all high and mighty. Its gas all the same. Little children wouldn't carry on like some of them do.

You really do have a bad attitude

alta stare · 15-05-2020 06:58PM

McCrack wrote: »

You really do have a bad attitude

Hang on a sec. I post about my experience meeting an ignorant Garda and i get jumped on by the narrow minded folk of Boards. Now i dont expect any different to be honest but none of ye can say nowt to me when ye are making up things in your own heads to suit yer own narratives. Suppression of a different opinion by a narrow minded clique....typical Boards. And as per usual a like minded mod comes to the rescue right on queue.

Discodog · 15-05-2020 07:00PM

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

And? Not even remotely relevant to my comment about the use of gloves.

It is if you are a Garda which hopefully you're not.

Beasty · 15-05-2020 07:07PM

alta stare wrote: »

jesus im worried now because i could get a ban off a thread on boards..grow up big man.

If you want to be petty then have a read of the posts i was referred to in. Good man.

Threadbanned

15-05-2020 08:39PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A screen between front and back seats of car can be put up, not unlike what has gone up in shops recently, you see it also in some taxis. And rather than the two Garda sitting in the front, one can sit in the back.

I understand they must walk together, but can they not walk together two metres apart?

So, one sits in the back and how does he get out of the car in a hurry to deal with something? Think about who normally sits in the back before answering. You are also proposing grounding the entire Garda fleet while they insert screens into cars not designed to have screens placed in them.

I'm not actually against screens by the way but it requires time to resolve that issue and we don't have that at present

Your last point, yes they could walk 2 meters apart but if they just spent the past week in the car together, in the station together and wrestling a spitting criminal into a cell together. You really think that's the deal breaker?

15-05-2020 08:41PM

Discodog wrote: »

It is if you are a Garda which hopefully you're not.

Not really. My entire point was that good hygiene by washing and sterilising is the best option and people misuse gloves. As your expert agrees.

Simple point by myself I thought.

15-05-2020 10:47PM

alta stare wrote: »

You nor anyone else here know what i was doing nor does it matter to ye the fact of the matter is i was going to a place i am more than allowed to. I met an ignorant rude member of our police force on my way. It isnt that hard to comprehend yet some narrow minded fools on here think they can duck in and start throwing things around just because they feel all high and mighty. Its gas all the same. Little children wouldn't carry on like some of them do.

Yep, you're dead right, noone here knows what you were doing.
Which is why I said unless you were doing something illegal under the Law, it doesn't matter.
Of course, if it was illegal, then you are in the wrong

15-05-2020 10:55PM

alta stare wrote: »

You nor anyone else here know what i was doing nor does it matter to ye the fact of the matter is i was going to a place i am more than allowed to.

No, we can only go on what you tell us.
But other people may have been through the same check point is you & had no issues

Discodog · 16-05-2020 02:19PM

GARDAÍ HAVE BEEN told that no further overtime will be sanctioned for members in a number of instances with immediate effect.

https://www.thejournal.ie/garda-overtime-suspended-5100417-May2020/

An Garda Síochána - COVID19

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