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Pulse Security?

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  • 10-09-2008 7:03pm
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    P_1
    Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭


    Anybody know what the story is with the lads going around campus in the high vis security jackets? Saw about 4 of them outside the library today.


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    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    There're 22,000 students at UCD, the size of a large town. Any town that size would have several police patrolling, we have a private security firm.


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    P_1
    Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Yeah but I thought that was Services job? Must have subconed it this year.
    Wonder how much that cost seeing as funding for courses is being cut down this year?


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    Flume
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭Flume


    Thats a bit ridiculous if its true. Plenty of jobs after being cut in places thats needed, i.e offices etc.


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    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    They tend to bring in extra security at the start and end of term - normally when the weather's fine there'd be a lot more out of control drinking on campus. I did see four bouncers on the student bar at 7pm this evening.


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    P_1
    Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Thats what I was thinking alright, just strange to see them outside the library though


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    ucd13
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    security has always been outsourced it used to be to ISS but the contract changed to Pulse on Monday.


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    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    In about 2 weeks you will see a lot less of them around as things calm down. Although i have no problem with their highly visible presence. Its good to see a bit of security around the place


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    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Pulse Security replaced the security which had been on Campus on the Wednesday thursday and friday.Apparently the other security were to laxadazy.From my experience with pulse all I can say is that they are a shower of c**ts.


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    Tayto2000
    Registered Users Posts: 597 ✭✭✭Tayto2000


    Harsh. What happened for you to take that view? I haven't seen much difference between them and the guys who were doing security before now, except maybe the jackets...


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    scop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭scop


    ChocolateSauce wrote: »
    There're 22,000 students at UCD, the size of a large town. Any town that size would have several police patrolling, we have a private security firm.

    When I came to UCD security was rare, and no bouncers manned the bar. This is a new innovation, and one I dislike intensely. Drinking in a bar with four security men at every corner outside the Forum bar is plain retarded. Maybe people these days feel the need to have hired muscle to feel safe drinking, but I for one think they provoke more nonsense than avert.


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    Zounds
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Zounds


    My impression is that Pulse security are here for Freshers' Week. Mainly the tent itself.


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    Goodluck2me
    Registered Users Posts: 5,404 ✭✭✭Goodluck2me


    yeah it's always upped around freshers week, it will be relaxed as the weeks go by.


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    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    Given that someone got stabbed in Roebuck last year it's hardly surprising that the bouncers are necessary. I feel a lot safer with them, and in six year's I've had little hassle from them at all.


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    scop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭scop


    Red Alert wrote: »
    Given that someone got stabbed in Roebuck last year it's hardly surprising that the bouncers are necessary. I feel a lot safer with them, and in six year's I've had little hassle from them at all.

    I dunno. I don't mean to suggest they are dodgy or any bother, but sometimes it seems like overkill to me. It's a little nanny-statish is for me, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. And sure somebody got stabbed, but what difference did it make to have these guys here? Did they ring the police faster after arriving 10 minutes later from one of their strolls about the place? Bikes still go missing at an alarming rate, the mad drunks still drink, and so on. What happened to good ol' social responsibility?


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    mloc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭mloc


    Two years back I saw a bunch of lads putting bikes from the engineering bike racks casually and without too much haste into a horse trailer at around 11 pm. Called services to notify them of the blatant mass theiving... thier response? "we will look into it" in an equally casual and carefree manner.

    I reckon they swap over security regularly as after a while some of the lads are on the take.


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    Sinfonia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    "Lack of common sense", "superiority complex" and "power trip" seem to be the phrases that spring to mind from my own experience and the experiences of others that I've heard about...


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    gubbie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    There's two of them constantly walking up and down in Glen. Its pretty annoying


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    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    gubbie wrote: »
    There's two of them constantly walking up and down in Glen. Its pretty annoying

    They are always around Belgrove


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