Gardai Inefficiencies

It can be simultaneously true that they shouldn’t be witnessing passport forms and that they’re doing it in an inefficient way. If they have a role, they should have the tools to fulfil that role in a timely manner.

Only 13,390 Gardai, according to their own website.

For a country of its size and with a population of what about 5.3 million people as of CSO figures for 2023.

Jokeshop stuff…

It’s difficult to be efficient and effective when you’re trying to plug a 7 foot hole in a dam with your finger.

Probably why the Garda in the city didn’t want to take a complaint about my nicked phone… because realistically it was so down the list of priorities….that they knew there was SFA they could do and once logged as a crime it goes against their stats.

Organisations become inefficient when they don’t have the tools to do their jobs, and or the quality of leadership.

ha ha you ve only noticed this now ?

i ll list a few of the issues ,

AGS do jobs that they shouldn't, passports are the tip , about a third of the time is dealing with mental health issues , county council jobs like blocked roads running dogs , immigration most countries have a separate organization for that, courts collection agents, not to mention refereeing every pissy civil issue , the default setting in Ireland has always been sure call the gardai they well sort it out

incessant recording and re recording of information, pulse ims pems rsa tusla hse dpp gsoc etc etc etc

rampant political interference in policing local and nationally , do you really think helen has a clue what she is doing or is she just parroting what she is told be first leo then simon

an open naked hatred from drew harris of front line gardai and visa versa . moral is is the sh1tter and has been for about 5 or 6 years , access to easier and better jobs with more money and less stress . i ve been introduced to drew twice neither time he so much as offered an hand shake or acknowledgment of any kind , he has the manners of a dog but many many upper level managers do also

awful equipment and cars (electric patrol cars ffs) oppressive strangling choking oversight (now to include strapping a cctv camara onto everyone) zealous persecution by ambitious grubbers who want to be seen to step on a few heads on the way up.

poor numbers has the front line operating at the bare min all the time and holes covered over buy over time further exhausting those same people. 100 plus hours over time per month would not be unusual but i ve heard of people at 180 plus. and looking into a summer of violence and vitriol at protest's and public unrest with compulsory over time like next week for the football. no access to leave or time off unless out sick

sorry your pass post took so long, that is because the pass port office contact garda stations multiple times 10 to 15 a day to check the records kept there , if the numbers or names dont match t gets pulled and sent back

1500 hundred a week ? 6 grand a month ha haha 😂🤣🤣 good lad,

top of the wage scale after 20 years puts ya just over 700 a week .

Insurance companies , state bodies ,corporate private security not to mention nsw and westren oz . fire and prison service .

no one fought against random drug testing ya plonker ,it supported by gra and most honest gardai and still hasn't started

you havent a clue and just sprout bile and hatred coz its all some people can do , i forgot to ad having to deal with your sort of childish and uninformed crap

you understand that overtime and shift allowances are not a concept unique to AGS neither do they bring anyone's weekly wage to 1500 , and that as i already pointed out shortages are filled by the same people working extra hours, some times in crazy numbers. they should do this for free ?

30 years min now 35 years leaving some working front line roles 24 hour service until 60 plus.

your information re pensions and gratuity is about 10 years out of date . new entrants get some where between 7 and 9 grand a year after 30 years of state service. in and increasingly difficult and dangerous job with a near 100 percent change of getting assault and strong likely hood of getting hurt

how much do you think its worth given that the state invest less than one percent of gdp in keeping its people safe

Do you understand what the word "Average" means?

What a load of tripe.

Or perhaps the retention crisis happened after they changed the terms and conditions for new recruits, and the pension benefits.........nothing to do with gender

Listen kid,

you can blab away all you like, and quote all you want, as you have nothing better to do at 9pm of a Saturday evening.

Equal opportunities is not discrimination. AGS had to go a long way to make the job tryly equal. When I served female gardai had a different numbering system than males. This meant that for all official correspondence, without reading the name, the reader knew "this came from a woman". The culture then was that women were needed "to make tea and look after lost children". The title "B/gda" was removed from use during my service. It was not uncommon for a member of the public to come into the public office with a problem, meet the Female Garda behind the counter, and demand to speak to a "Proper Garda".

The highest ranking female garda at the time was an inspector. The Glass ceiling was real. There were no female Gardai in Traffic units because few would have been sent on driving courses. I was in Templemore when the first female Garda Motorcyclist was trained.

There was even a pay claim made by civil servants on discrimination grounds, who were working alongside garda clerks, who were inevitably female, and thus denied most of the allowances that a male garda would earn.

I'm trying to decide though.

Where did the minister hurt you? Was it her or do you just hate all women?

But until you walk the walk in the shoes of a Garda you can't speak for what you perceive as were it all went wrong.

So, when did you serve?