Members of An Garda Siochana are said to be shocked by the arrest yesterday and news of the wider investigation. While that is genuinely true for a number of Gardai, for others….. pic.twitter.com/9OHDniLVNX
— nwl (@nwl88444048) September 30, 2021
Gulp.
This afternoon.
Meanwhile…
…via Irish Times:
The man arrested on Wednesday is a former senior officer in the force who moved up the ranks very quickly and was well-known and well-liked. He was regarded as a rising star of the Garda and secured repeated promotions.
He now stands accused of aiding a crime gang by supplying information to them, though no findings have been made against him and the allegations are not proven. The Garda investigation that resulted in his arrest is now closely examining his recent activities to determine what serving Garda members he has been in contact with.
Sources stressed the arrested man had many friends and contacts in the Garda as he served in the force from the time he was a very young man until he was middle aged, adding only a very small number of those contacts were now under suspicion. No serving member of the force has been arrested as part of the investigation but serving members are now under suspicion, Garda sources said.
Serving gardaí are suspects in drugs trade investigation (Irish Times)
Yesterday: Retired senior garda arrested on suspicion of assisting drugs gang (Irish Times)
Why now? This has been known for at least 30 years. Gardai are up to their eyeballs in drug dealing and facilitating the importation and distribution of drugs.
You’re dealing with people who are interested in sports and are over the age of 15. They’re not the brightest.
Ha!!!
You could say that about almost anything in fairness.
A modern day “that would be an ecumenical matter.”
Intelligence services have always been involved in drugs/prostitution, CIA/MI5 etc. If this goes to prosecution it will open a large can of worms (UK Intel) unless the parties are paid off or have an unfortunate accident etc
The old Ryan Pilkington move, clever, ballsy.
The war on drugs is a failure. End it now. Legalize and tax Maririjuana related drugs. The Gards have been corrupted by this whole thing.
ah tootles, for a brief second I thought it was another fella entirely
The dogs in the street knew that trap and stash houses were being cleared out the day before they were being raided, sure it wouldn’t do if the Gards couldn’t get a few bags for the weekend, if you drug tested Gardai coming in off the weekend off half of them would be out the door midmorning, unless it’s not a sackable offence, nothing about that organization surprises me anymore.