Tag Archives: An Garda Síochána

From top: Outside Leo Varadkar’s home on Sunday; This morning’s Irish Times

KN writes:

If I wasn’t so completely trusting of the guards and the Irish Times I might have thought this was all a bit of a set- up done on the cheap.

Having being at all the marches to date, I’ve never heard any homophobic comments or chants or placards from those in attendance. It wouldn’t be tolerated. And the stuff I’ve seen from the grainy footage of the protest on Sunday would not have been tolerated by anyone I know at these marches.

This group, ‘We Are Sovereign People’ – whose crap I condemn, by the way – have no online presence, no spokesperson and never publicise their protests, which appear to consist of hanging outside ministers’ houses on Sundays, and provoking the inevitable twitter backlash. Why would they repeat the same failed formula that damages their supposed cause?

Some unnamed members then pledge to the crime correspondent of a national newspaper that they plan future protests outside GPs’ houses. What kind of group is this?

Anyone?

Protesters who targeted Varadkar’s home plan to focus on GPs next (irish Times)

 

This morning.

Garda HQ, Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris (above right) and Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll (left) prepare to brief media on Operation TARA, an ‘enhanced anti-drugs strategy’ which will focus on tackling ‘street-level’ dealing in cities, towns and villages across the country.

The war against illegal drugs, unorthodox medicinal supplements and rogue chemists never ends.

God speed, brave guards.

Now get your vax.

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Move your camera!

This afternoon.

Policing Authority.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris is responding to an opening address on 999 cancellations by Bob Collins, chairman of the Police Authority.

Commissioner Harris provided the following data:

CAD = Computer Aided Dispatch system.

DVSA = Domestic Violence Sexual Assault.

Earlier…

This afternoon.

Earlier….

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris

This morning.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris

The Garda Commissioner is to appear before the Policing Authority at 3pm to explain the failure of gardaí to properly respond to 999 emergency calls for assistance in 2019 and 2020.

Via RTÉ

An internal inquiry led by an Assistant Commissioner into the handling of these priority calls has found that in hundreds of cases gardaí cancelled calls before there was an appropriate policing response.

The inquiry which is ongoing is focussed on domestic violence calls

Drew Harris has acknowledged that there was a practice of cancelling calls, which meant people seeking help from An Garda Síochána did not receive the policing service they should have.

Harris before Policing Authority after domestic abuse 999 calls unanswered (RTÉ)

Previously: Thousands of domestic violence 999 calls got no response from gardai (Sunday Times, June 12)

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This morning.

Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.

Head of Trauma Services in the HSE Keith Synnott (top) and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris (above centre) among those helping to launch the BikeSafe programme, a Road Safety initiative  run by An Garda Síochána specifically aimed at motorcyclists.

The aim is that by assessing (free of charge) your riding skills and passing on their knowledge, skills and experience, advanced Garda motorcyclists ‘can help you to become a safer and more competent rider’.

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Tonight.

Hmm.

Earlier:

Tonight.

South Anne Street, Dawson Street, Grafton Street and South William Street, Dublin 2.

Earlier: Passing the Baton

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Update:

Tonight.

South William Street, Dublin 2.

Members of the Garda’s Public Order Unit disperse crowds of mainly young people with a baton charge on newly-pedestrianised South William Street to surrounding areas.

Seems proportionate.

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