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  • #52
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    gman2k wrote: »
    In Ireland, it's quite common to be asked the following questions at a Garda traffic checkpoint:
    Where are you going? and why?
    Where are you coming from?

    You don't have to answer these questions, as they are none of the Garda's business - they are your private business.
    Now if they ask what your name and address are? that's something you have to answer.

    Actually, I thought that under the Road Traffic Act, they do have the right to ask those questions and you are obliged to answer.

    The Road Traffic Act has very different powers, especially for a traffic stop, much more than a stop on the street.

    In all circumstances, when asked for your details (name/address) you are obliged to provide.


  • #53
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    gman2k wrote: »
    In Ireland, it's quite common to be asked the following questions at a Garda traffic checkpoint:
    Where are you going? and why?
    Where are you coming from?

    You don't have to answer these questions
    Paulw wrote: »
    Actually, I thought that under the Road Traffic Act, they do have the right to ask those questions and you are obliged to answer.

    The Road Traffic Act has very different powers, especially for a traffic stop, much more than a stop on the street.

    In all circumstances, when asked for your details (name/address) you are obliged to provide.

    I've always assumed it was just chitchat to see if you were drunk. On the rare occasions I've been stopped and asked that my usual answer is "Just on the way home/to get petrol/to town" and in answer to where I have been I'd usually answer "a friend's/the shop/the pub". I only once been asked to elaborate ("And where would home be, now?") and the name of the town sufficed at that stage. I've never had to reel off precise addresses at a normal checkpoint.


  • #54
    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Dara Robinson


    Paulw wrote: »
    In all circumstances, when asked for your details (name/address) you are obliged to provide.
    Is that 100%? I'm kind of curious now that we got talking about it


  • #55
    Fionn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭Fionn


    at least in Galway you have to supply your details (but then that was because of the guys behaviour, so the garda enacted the Law - i.e. the Public Order Act)

    On the other hand if your going about your lawful business ( open to interpretation)
    theres a load of stuff here Indymedia!!! - dunno how valid it is but one thing's for sure you'd need a barrister or someone going around with you to keep you on the straight and narrow!!

    :)


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