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If stopped by a guard can you ask them for ID?

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  • #122
    McCrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭McCrack


    To be fair we didnt see the start of this between the Det. and the person recording.

    The Det. handled it poorly and seemingly threatened to take the man's camera off him under a guise of police power which he obviously didnt have.

    That in my mind would warrant him identifying himself when he was asked which he failed to do.


  • #123
    source
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭source


    Right people, It always astounds me how reasonably intelligent people can have no common sense at all!

    If 2 people dressed in Garda Uniforms, approach you while driving a fully marked Garda car. You can safely bet your house on the fact that these people are Gardai.

    If a someone in plain clothes approaches you and informs you that they are members of An Garda Siochana, they will generally have their ID out and pointing in your direction before they even reach you. If they don't feel free to ask for it.

    If you are doing something wrong, and someone tries to apprehend you and put you in handcuffs, then you can once again bet your house on the fact that they are Gardai.

    If a lone person approaches your door and professes to be from the local station, ask for ID, this is perfectly acceptable.

    If you are driving a normal mundane car, and you see blue flashing lights behind you, pull over and open the window a bit, if the person is in plain clothes ask for their ID, if in uniform ask them what you did, if it doesn't add up, ask for ID.

    If you're not driving a big truck full of expensive computer parts, clothes, money etc etc, blue flashing lights behind you will not mean you're being hijacked. It will however mean that the local constabulary want to have a word with you and possibly discuss with you the manner of your driving, the speed at which you were travelling, etc etc.


  • #124
    detective
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭detective


    D.McC wrote: »
    The two guys in the video should trouble you as well. That is quite clearly a state car.

    Now, after popping in and out of this thead for a while, and reading the posts about how a 'plain clothes' guard must display ID when asked. I put it to the AGS members posting here - why did this 'guard' not ID himself when requested :confused:

    I find it peculiar how you can compare one incident to the other. One incident involves a person dressed as a Garda stopping a car in the middle of the night and running once he sees there's a male in the car. The other is a Garda not giving his name to a protestor. I'm not troubled at all by the latter, be it right or wrong what he did.

    How can I or any other member explain to you why this member didn't show his ID. I answer for myself and nobody else. Plus a poster above raised an important issue - we are not privy to what happened in the lead up to this clip.


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