Would a private police force work in Ireland?

prinz

humbert wrote: »

You seem to have deliberately misinterpreted my post so that you could go off on that rant. I simply described the reasons why, in my opinion, the gardai are as lazy and useless as they are. I.e., that they lack the incentives available in private industry.

You made a suggestion and I explained by using questions, the answers to which would force you to elaborate on just how your suggestion might work in practice, why it's nonsensical. How is that a deliberate misinterpretation?

If you'd care to elaborate on how we determine the success of gardaí go ahead.

VEN

mikemac1 wrote: »

But OP, if you are broken into you can get immediate response, technical staff, people picked up from the streets and detectives to interview them


All you need is connections and to be important

Alan Shatters house was burgled in March

yes that pisses me off no end, the burglar will probably get 5 years for that.

humbert

prinz wrote: »

You made a suggestion and I explained by using questions, the answers to which would force you to elaborate on just how your suggestion might work in practice, why it's nonsensical. How is that a deliberate misinterpretation?

If you'd care to elaborate on how we determine the success of gardaí go ahead.

No I didn't.

I seem to have given you too much credit when I suggested your misinterpretation was deliberate.

Fuinseog

Goafer wrote: »

Firstly mods, sorry if a thread on this exists already.
Secondly, feel free to shift to another forum if you see fit.

The Garda Síochana are a state agency and as such are overpaid and under worked. The Gardaí, are for the most part incompetent. Mostly due to lack of resources and funding. If I phone the Gardaí, it can take up to an hour for some issues, which are often quite serious. Many Garda stations around the country are closing down and some towns don't have a Garda Station for several miles. If someone is in the process of breaking into my home while I am in it, I want immediate Garda response. Particularly if it is my elderly neighbour, grandmother, great-grandmother etc. who are in peril.

I am suggesting that a private police force be set up in Ireland which will be funded partly from state aid, donations and other enterprising activity. Money for this police force could be generated by fines or other entrepreneurial activity. This could be run as a for profit organisation and villagers and towns people could pay an annual fee of €100 a year per household to each new police station to fund it. I know I would pay it for peace of mind.

So would a private vigilante force work in Ireland?

I have phoned the guards on several occasions and they were there within two mins.
most Irish people do not want to live in police state where cops are strict and everywhere.

Capt'n Midnight

realies wrote: »

Found the link He told the Herald that jamming devices could be defeated by alarm systems that rely on radio signals, rather than GSM, to communicate with monitoring stations.
"Jammers cannot block radio signals which do not use the cellular network to send and receive messages," Mr Mooney pointed out.

http://www.alarmcontrol24.ie/monitoring-3/

Alarm Control 24 have its own private Radio Telemetry Network, licensed by COMREG and does not share bandwidth with any other radio telemetry providers.
...
Our radio network is totally secure, penetrable proof against GSM Jammers and is proven to be the most reliable and effective tool against these jammers in terms of performance and cost.

Yes it won't be blocked by well built GSM blockers.

However, it could easily be targeted by other jammers.

With a GSM blocker people will know it's in use when phone / broadband are affected.