Garda assaulted

I agree with you. Please read my previous posts

I’d be surprised if the sentence is that severe to be honest… it certainly should be and more but….

im also concerned how ineffectual that colleague of his was. That’s scary, I’m really perturbed watching it… she seems focused on going to have combat with a third party, while her colleague is on the ground, seriously vulnerable, being attacked by two….if one of those two fellas had a knife, he’s fûcked dot com…

might sound overly critical but if a Garda does not posses the physical prowess of hand to hand combat, nouse to prioritise the wellbeing of her buddy and combat ability to support colleagues and the public…. You can talk about quotas and everything and increased numbers of X demographic but….

its a sad watch for many reasons…

Perpetrators are the real victims in this!!😲

It's basically state supported wasters been given the nod to act like animals and then being told that it's ok because they aren't expected to do anything useful anyway.

the way people are going on its the end of the world because a gard got bet, I do be going around and never have any trouble were not living in bayrut like people think.

I'd say there does be some hassle with who is getting paired when going out on patrol. It's someone you have to rely on

Ah like clockwork out comes the 'It's not Beirut' - Well wouldn't that make you feel better after dropping 650k on a bungalow in an area terrorised by feral trash? Let's not demand too high a standard of policing in one of the most expensive, 'prosperous' cities in Europe now, just repeat to yourself at least it's not Baghdad.

And brought money to donate to the poor box.

Some amount of whataboutery being spouted.

I'm sure we should shut up and not demand safer areas for our kids to live and work because other countries with over 60 million people have the same issues🙄.

Its not about Garda numbers.

I would agree with you if AGS utilised the Gardai correctly.

If we have 14k Members of AGS.

how can there be minimal visual impact on the streets?

The persona of the Gardai have changed over the past 2 decades

seems to be treated like just a job like any other.

I would question if todays Garda generation are actually trying to avoid conflict rather then resolve it.

I would also question if todays recruits would have been recruited 20 or 30 years ago

Right it's not about numbers despite several serving Gardai telling you it is. You know better apparently.

As has already been broken down there are 14 thousand total members of all ranks. Split that 4 ways for the unit rosters, now remove every member above sergeant, remove detective units, compol, warrants units, ASU, divisional specialist units, national specialist units, members working in the court services etc. Remove sick leave, annual leave. Now split what you have left between every station in the country. It won't go far.

There are less Gardai working on regular units than there have ever been. You're looking at a situation where 3-4 members working in a station at any one time is the norm now. You have one car out and someone working in the station that may have to eat at the desk because the car is too busy to cover them. Some stations won't have a car at all some shifts or it may be covered by overtime which is again becoming the norm.

Who has said it’s all about numbers and nothing else?

I see people mentioning a whole list of issues where numbers makes up only one of the list of issues.

We have 14k serving members of AGS.

If they are not visible to the public then we have a reactive Police Force who leave the stations when called upon instead of a pro active police force who go out looking or crimes being committed .

Crime Spots in Ireland are cantered around certain areas yet these areas are not policed.

Even if you automated the paperwork or Doubled the Headcount I don’t think you will see an influx of Gardai visible on the street or on the road.

Can you give over with the 14k number, at least?

It's absolutely meaningless, and you don't seem to get that

From the footage it looks like panic set in. The second guard went away for a moment before returning back to help her colleague. It can't have been an easy situation.

A tazer would have been useful!