Gardai being transferred for not meeting Speeding Ticket Quotas

seamus

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/04/28/story200071.html

More bull**** from the Gardai at the top. Anyone who tries to claim that the speed traps are there to save lives hasn't a leg to stand on.

garthv

Thats a fùcking joke, Gardai as usual trying to come up with excuses for their boys club

Seth Brundle

Are you surprised? I don't think there s anyone around who actually thought that the current speed detection process was designed for safety reasons.

Beruthiel

gardai are given a quota each month
if it's not reached, questions are asked
so
if you're a garda with x amt of tickets to hand out before the end of the month, do you give a toss how you get your quota up?
certainly saving lives is bottom of your list on this, so you just plonk yourself on some side street where the speed limit is 30 and you nab anyone doing 31 plus... et voila, quota up in no time flat.
this has happened to my bloke btw... done for doing 33 in a 30 zone, it's done all the time. Meanwhile, people are dying on our roads

RuggieBear

and i woke up this morning in a good mood....now i feel all dirty and cynical again. :mad:

My father was caught "speeding" at the belfield overpass (N11) the other week.....what a ****ing joke!

xzodia

i think a bit of way should be given to maybe a kilometer or 2 over the limit but if some people and way over then i dont see any reason to complain. The N11 is notorious for speeders and for people been caught.

seamus

xzodia wrote:

i think a bit of way should be given to maybe a kilometer or 2 over the limit but if some people and way over then i dont see any reason to complain. The N11 is notorious for speeders and for people been caught.

5km over is the minimum leeway.

My speedo is only graded every 10km/h, so to catch me at 3 or 4km/h over the limit wouldn't be fair. Most speedos are inaccurate by at upto 10%

Beruthiel

seamus wrote:

My speedo is only graded every 10km/h, so to catch me at 3 or 4km/h over the limit wouldn't be fair. Most speedos are inaccurate by at upto 10%

ever tried to argue that one with a cop seamus?

seamus

Beruthiel wrote:

ever tried to argue that one with a cop seamus?

Nah, I'm usually gone before they see me

xzodia

the 5km leeway was taken away as the top brass said no more to it and wanted zero tolerence of 1km over is speeding

vector

xzodia wrote:

the 5km leeway was taken away as the top brass said no more to it and wanted zero tolerence of 1km over is speeding

Solution: Gardai should get more "brownie points" for higher speeders than lower speeders.

So the whole catching people doing 54 in a 50 zone would be unattractive.
Gardai would only go after people doing 70 in a 50 zone.

Of course the best thing would be to get rid of the quota but one must take into account the established culture, and inject realism into proposed solutions.

edmund_f

perhaps the 'targets' the cops should be trying to reach is zero, i.e. zero deaths on the road, anyone else noticed recently the increase in detections and the increase in deaths. Should be clear that the current system of enforcement = more deaths. Wonder why?