Trainee gardaí Laura Ryan, from Rathfarnham (left), and Patrice Ryan, from Tipperary (right), with Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan this morning to launch a charity Four Peak Mountain Challenge in which 100 serving and retired gardai will take part in May
At the weekend.
Hugh O’Connell, in the Sunday Business Post, reported:
Some 25 gardaí are currently suspended from duty for suspected misconduct, including one sergeant who has been suspended for over seven years.
The Department of Justice has confirmed that out of the 13,000-strong force, 20 rank-and-file members are suspended, three sergeants, and two retired gardaí.
…“It’s very strange that proportionately the far highest number of suspensions and investigations in agencies under the Department of Justice are taking place in the Gardaí, far outstripping almost any other department,” [People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett] said.
Boyd Barrett has called for her suspension for the duration of its hearings and said the figures show a “double standard” between the treatment of ordinary gardaí and the Commissioner.
“It suggests a fundamental dysfunctionality within the force and given the treatment of whistleblowers like Maurice McCabe, it raises a question as to why these people may have been suspended,” he said.
Leah Farrell/Rollingnews
Surely 23 serving gardai out of 13,000 isn’t a massive amount? For comparison what’s the number of teachers on suspension out of total number?
Eh?
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‘The enforcers of goverment decree are Good Guys and people who educate our children are Bad Guys.’
You really are an insufferable troll.
No one thinks that 23 out of 13000 seems kinda…..average?
Wow. The board’s resident troll called me a troll. I don’t know what to do now.
Hilarious.. editor, the man who picks the bones of dead people, calling someone else a troll..
lamentable
Jayzus, that one got through premod pretty quick. Seems I’m not the only one who thinks you’re a delusional contrarian troll.
Ban this vile troll please. For shame on this site.
Debates point directly mentioned in article : Called troll.
Abuses people with no relevance to the OP: Calls people troll.
You boys really need to brush up on your definitions there.
Still no answer to my question I see Moyest, Kenm would be proud.
Gotta say if the only response you have to rotide’s point is to scream ‘troll’ then you win because apparently that’s how you win at Internet.
“Abuses people with no relevance to the OP: Calls people troll.”
Oooh rotide you’re going to be called a bully for that. Probably a racist too, depending on how angry he is. If you’re critical of his attacks and trolling, he’ll call you a bully :)
Item 1 on the agenda for the review of policing should be getting Gadai uniforms that actually fit and that they can be proud to wear.
(Yes. I would be saying exactly the same thing if it were male Gardai pictured.)
One of my friends is a garda and she absolutely hates the uniform. She said its an awful yoke to wear. Scratchy and too-hot and neither comfortable nor practical.
Don’t stress olver it. They’ll grow into those uniforms with 6 months of eating donuts and sitting in the front passenger seat of an Avensis.
maybe something by Hugo Boss ?
or
Jean Paul Gautier ?
Didn’t Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms too?
yep
French cops get JP
Niiiice. :)
Can we get James Kavanagh (formerly Exchequer Street Boy around these parts) to design ours?!
suspended for 7 years on full pay…………..yes please!!!
Indeed. How do you manage to get suspended for 7 years? How is that even possible?
Gardai are following a definite line of inquiry.
Maybe they used the same software for HR as they do for the breathalysers and he was actually suspended for 7 days.