Another random person hospitalized after unprovoked attack in Dublin city center

You should stop posting and have a sleep. Maybe stay off the sugar. You do not currently come across as a rational person.

Why the Netherlands ?

A quick look at the current assistant commissioners will show you that one is Canadian and a second one is also a former PSNI man.

Commisoners retire at 60 so in about two years or so , we’ll have a new one , maybe Irish , Dutch , PSNI or Canadian .

I have no idea why.

The media here had a total wobble the other day at the thought of extra armed garda patrols and now we were suggesting bringing somebody in from the 100% routinely armed politie in the Netherlands. Mad stuff, lol

A simple public order arrest takes 3 to 4 hours of admin not including court time of course if computers printers and GISC working as they should.

Nearly all garda computers are 2nd or 3rd hand DOJ desktops loaded with PULSE IMS RDS LMS PALF and on and on and fail regularly taking weeks to repair or replace.

new players and drivers can not be downloaded to run the cctv systems due to admin lockouts and security setups. Sometimes stand alone non networked desktop is available or you use your own privately bought laptop

the PULSE system was bought as an already defunct database in 1999. it has glitch's cleaned up a few time a year but hasnt been updated. the CAD system is from the late 70s and uses MS DOS but is being updated to CAD2 , which is slower and more buggy but easier to use

The breath test scandal is a prime example of being told go out and create stats we dont care if you actually do it just record the stats

There are unsuitable members leaving who should never been recruited yes , but there are very suitable skilled and able ones leaving in disgust and frustration at the state of the organization after 5 10 15 or 20 years service. they are being snapped up by outside agency's in Ireland and abroad. Insurance company's IT and social media as well as state organizations like GSOC PRTB and HSE. The MET, western Australia and new zealand police as well as frontex all recruited in Ireland last year. I personally know 4 for 5 who went to OZ. The pay isnt better but they are much better run organizations. Labeling them as unsuitable is insulting and offensive from drew

there is no early retirement .

the roosters is the straw that broke the back of AGS

with all the americans in town this weekend i thought the cops might at least make the effort of looking busy.

no presence on grafton street this evening.

I commented on here before about how I went to Dublin a couple of years back in Dublin and came across a gang of youths drunk kicking in doors in temple bar. I was with my young fella at the time and felt in very intimidating. This gang then proceeded to go down O’Connell st generally being a nuisance. What I could believe was there wasn’t one Garda about it actually felt unreal and lawless.. like how is there to help you if something did happen.

the only change in 2002 was from good quality gortex type coats to non waterproof bomber type then to fleeces , everything else the same shirts and wool pants.

none of the current uniform, combats and t-shirts and softshell type jackets is waterproof , in Ireland and the quality is awful

I mean we've been over this already, but there were 1600 muggings in Amsterdam in 2019, that's over 4 a day, and a tourist stabbed to death recently. Plenty of crime there. Many addicts on the streets. Plenty of good things about the place too though.

That's partly down to you having a chip on your shoulder and hating Dublin like most Irish people.

I was in the city centre today and Thursday night and there's a great vibe in the place.

Of course, it's a city that attracts lots of tourists with legal drugs and prostitution, and with those you always have crime. Also it's a "melting pot" which naturally brings more crime. So it's not a role model or a standard to aspire or to be compared to.

Hopefully all peaceful no incidents

Look into Dublin's Utopian future:

Prisons are overwhelmingly populated with Irish nationals, nothing to do with any artificial inflating of the population.

House prices started to rise as a result of the Celtic tiger in the early 2000s. People immigrated to this country because of how well it was doing.

Gardai were not leaving the job in big numbers in the early 2000s, but they do now, in no small part due to the reduction in pensions for new recruits brought in in 2013, which doesn't make it an attractive job to stay in, if they can find something better.so

Primetime the other night had an interview with 3 gardai that had left the force in the last 18 months or so, not one of them claimed cost of living is why they left, 2 of them with well over 10 years service have houses already, so nothing to do with housing either.

if you want to wonder why there is a housing crisis, maybe look at the fact that governments have been selling off social housing for decades, without building anything to replace them.