The Aussies are trying to take our cops.

I know of one very active "good" member that's off to Oz. Going away drinks last week. The three year suspension for the bicycle fiasco is the final nail in the coffin of the morale.

They have been enticing Irish nurses for years so why not. TBH any young Gardai with no ties would be mad not to jump at the opportunity.

If we could only get them to take our governing politicians and high ranking civil servants instead, we'd be away with it.

Don't think so. If they are looking for whistleblowers to be silenced, they'd also be looking to hire whoever is working in Tusla

Could we go back to the good old days and send them out our criminals instead.

Was there really?

Other than another garda with a grudge?

You may know the history, I dont but nothing came out and garda cleared.

Old man visited by team of gardai and bicycle removed would suggest the giving of the bike was being treated very very seriously.

Is there anything we can hunt back from them?

So they are offering about €53k - €60k OP. Not sure it's as enticing as it first looks. What's a typical Garda salary?

Faux outrage over a recruitment drive? Happening in many a trade. Why shouldn't the Garda have the same chance. Obviously you'll still end up dealing with the lowest of the low and day to day sh1t but there not exactly shouting about how great morale etc here is.

I've got to agree, lived there for three years and you'd be swapping the causes of the current low moral for the climate extremes and dealing with legacy issues of a brutal racial regime.

When I was there there was a long running saga of a cop who contracted west nile disease in a remote posting and the force pretty much neglected him to the point that other police officers became his full time careering support.

We're talking frontier territory and I'd only advise it for single people looking for a challenge. East coast for those with family.

Edit to ad when I was there I had to drop into a police station in central Perth and ended up having a good chat with a Scot who had been recruited to oz in previous years. Basically his take was the more outback states prefer to recruit from europe as the local intake was still too racist. I've met a good few aussies who'd still call aboriginals vermin, sub human.

I also met a retired cop who had done a but of research of the early years and he said the police force primary job in the federation era was rounding up aboriginals from the native lands to make way for farmers. Shooting aboriginal wasn't a crime, and they're still dealing with the trauma of forced child abduction by the state.

These are legacy issues that any Garda considering a move there has to absorb.

Personally I think if a garda is in a position to take up one of these opportunities then they'd be foolish not

I don't think it is that black and white TBH.

If they voluntarily leave AGS they are done, there is no returning.

That is a huge consideration.