Group patrolling the town

Could be just a walking club

So are they just going to follow the migrants instead? Isn't that just called intimidation, stalking or racial profiling?

Anyway, they can do what they like as a "walking club", but if it bleeds over to being a vigilante group then it's going to be dealt with differently by the Gardai.

People used to do this years back to get drug pushers out of areas. I remember guys standing around flaming barrels in Oldcourt in Bray back in the day.

Mad if true.

Ah shur, we have international and moral obligations. Who cares if the fabric of society is breaking down so much people feel they have to resort to these type of tactics?

I think you need to start with the question:

“What is a “patrol”?

Then take it from there - walking around your neighbourhood is not against the law- you could organise a 24/7 “walk around your neighbourhood” club and it wouldn’t be illegal in any way - you could call it a “patrol” and it wouldn’t be illegal either.

But start to outline or enact whilst on patrol the behaviours required of this patrol - depending on what those behaviours are , they could be illegal or lead to a criminal arrest

Exactly. If a "migrant" is walking home from the shop and there's Irish people who happen to be walking the same direction in front of him/her does that constitute "following" them?

In the last couple of years there's been a lady knifed to death, a man run over by joyriders and killed, a tourist beaten into a coma, a tourist attacked with a machete, constant drug dealing, all within 20 mins walk of where I live now but the concerned locals only came out to protest and demand action when some foreigners were being moved into a disused building. Funny that.

Wouldn't being a vigilante leave you unable to look for work and you'd lose your dole?

Lol!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You think a patrol car would join a group of vigilantes?? You are living on a different planet.

It's not up to vigilantes to decide law and punishment, and Gardai certainly don't appreciate groups of them causing trouble.

Its not a new thing,plenty of neighborhood watch group's around the country.

Most of them were created to stop our own homegrown scum from attacking old people in rural areas

Join the Garda Reserve if you want. Is it still a thing?

While I wouldn't have a problem in principle with a legitimate community watch type group. I suspect many of these "concerned citizens" are possibly of the type who start battering a random foreign looking fella and then decide to start screaming "he tried to take a child" for the TikTok video …………

For all the vigilante fantasists out there.

I'd suggest getting a red head band and some fingerless leather gloves. Really complete the look.

Concerned locals patrol is a difference concept to garda reserve. Due to other commitments I couldn’t sign up to the full garda reserve but yes I could take part in a few weekly patrols in the evenings.

As for @suvigirl laughing at me saying it would be good to have a squad car with us, surely that is a good thing for ppl who are concerned the locals on patrol might go “rogue”???

If we have the guards driving along with us flashing the lights it would increase our effectiveness.

indeed- out guarding a “concerned citizens” patrol - the irony of course is that it’s the “concerned citizens” that will most likely break the law- not the imaginary people they are “hunting”

oh no- not another Garda class action suit for damaged eyeballs whilst in the course of their duty 🤪

This Dad's Army stuff has to be a wind up.

Grouping these vigilantes under the neighbourhood watch banner was the Gardai's best and only move here as that's a predefined structure for engaging with regular Joe's. It assigns them a community Guard - who will probably only work the day-shift - and all other serious matters will need to be called in under the emergency system (999). That brings them into the fold of "Garda engagement", but keeps them suitably isolated at the same time.

Then if there's an incident of intimidation or racism reported to the Gardai during one of these 'patrols', they can obtain the list of who was active on patrol at the time and scribble furious notes as they investigate with the benefit of knowledge. 👍️

This is a comment from you on the extending hours thread

Sigh… we have already been through this but once again…

AGS don’t have the resources to police the streets 24/7.

So you now want the same under resourced Garda to help you lot be racist "concerned citizens"?

Ah sorry, are you trying to make me actually wet myself laughing?? Patrol cars with blues lights flashing for your vigilante mob? ,😂😂

The Garda reserve is literally a few hours a week, you think you could join a vigilante group, but not the Garda reserve? Yeah I think we can see exactly what you want to do.

Beechwood in his minivan battering anyone who didn't help him get Taylor Swift tickets.