“Si sta dando libero sfogo agli automobilisti che non si fermano” – la nuova politica del Garda è sotto accusa poiché molti inseguimenti automobilistici vengono ora abbandonati
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/its-giving-free-rein-to-drivers-who-dont-stop-new-garda-policy-under-fire-as-many-car-chases-now-being-abandoned/a369433340.html
di PoppedCork
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Policy should be fuck around and find out, if you don’t stop on whatever mode of transport they should reserve the right to ram you if required to make you stop. Police are already treated as a joke and the courts are no better, get tough on crime & punishment and earn back respect
What the actual fuck…
Cops in the U.K. are under resourced but they still manage to have ANPR in most cars, stingers, tactical pursuit training, trackers and helicopters. The Gardai are being asked to police without the right resources being made available.
This is what happens when a gard can be brought to courth over gougers dying while driving wrecklessly after commiting a crime
This was always going to happen once the DPP brought the case against the gardai that resulted in the head on collision killing those three little angels.
Its kinda odd when you hear of police abusing their power and having too much authority in some countries meanwhile ours have the opposite problem with how little power/authority they have.
As unpopular as it sounds, good.
Chases are well established to be dangerous endeavours that often up hurting or killing innocent people.
If you have the plates, there’s very little reason to engage in a pursuit.
Car chases aren’t like the movies. Chases are highly dangerous for those chasing and for anyone else who happens to be in the area, other drivers, cyclists, pedestrians.
Some of those involved are just looking to be chased for their own craic, so a policy of chasing will encourage even more chases.
I like that picture though, looks like they’re time travellering.
Let the guards fo their jobs, it’s probably time for the government to step in and take action here.
It’s a case of lunatics running the asylum here
Good. We should abolish the Garda. No need for police in 2025 we live in a modern society
Everybody here celebrating the no chase policy are part of the problem, you’re basically happy to say any crime is acceptable so long as it’s a violent or dangerous crime where the engagement of the Gardai could “escalate” the situation 🙄
Also the privileged eejit idea that if you have the license plate then this is easily resolved later by tracking them down by the license, insurance and tax they definitely have in their own name in the car they definitely didn’t steal for the crime…. Seriously didn’t think that one through did ye? 🙄
Very surprised at the reaction to this here. The data has been there for many years across multiple countries: Police chases do more harm than good. They cause the suspect to drive more erratically and increase the risk to bystanders.
In this day and age there’s no reason to chase down someone in the car. Once they gardaí have the reg they can just track them down after the fact.
Edit: so I see a few people pointing out stolen vehicles can’t be tracked down. Very true. That still doesn’t change the fact that car chases are counterproductive. They increase the risk of injuries and fatalities. And there’s people in the comments talking about how the Gardaí should be ramming people off the road. I suppose it’s a fair price to pay if an innocent bystander gets flattened as long as you get your Octavia back
Store St Station told me directly that they won’t go after the stolen bikes being driven up and down Gardiner St at speed/on the path etc because they could lose their job/pension or end up in prison if anyone gets hurt.
>The new policy states that gardaí can drive against traffic, unless it is unsafe to do so.
The policy is presumably more detailed than this one line, but that’s very subjective for the guards on the scene.
Strictly speaking, it’s always dangerous to drive against traffic. Even on a supposedly clear motorway, two vehicles travelling towards each other at >120kph will cover a lot of intervening ground fast.
They got a good result against those 3 scumbags. But what happens if a kid or some other innocent is killed?
The Garda can’t have any other policy. It would be politically impossible for them to have a policy that endangered the public
Spoke to 2 guards lately about this. 1 said if he starts a chase and abandons it, he remains responsible for whatever happens to that car even after chase is over. Second said they won’t even give them advanced driving training so they are all using their own personal licenses escorting ambulances etc.
DPP screwed up the whole thing aswell trying to prosecute that guard.
I guess they just didn’t have ….
Da Drive.
🥁🥁🥁🥁
This is Ireland. Collect 50 convictions and get a free house. Scumbagocracy
So we can add joyriding to the list of things that are basically legal here.
Feel bad for any garda just trying to do their job with all this shite piled on
So, the word is, you don’t actually have to stop. Keep on running and they’ll have to give up. That’s the law and order we’ve been promised 😀
This is not a great message to send. So if I get pulled in for a drink driving stop and know I’m defo clear as it’s been a week since I had a drink but at the same time I know I’m going to be late for work can I just drive on at the legal speed limit and continue my day as if nothing happened??
Garda. Drones. Are. The. Answer.
In the UK in 2016 2/3rds of people killed during police chases were not the criminal. And only 5% of the criminals apprehended this way would be considered serious by the general public.
I totally get the emotion of wanting to chase these people down, I’d probably do the same myself if somebody did something to me while I was in my car, but it makes no sense based on the data.
This isn’t anything new, Gardai have always been discouraged from pursuing car chases as it endangers other drivers on the road and pedestrians. US car chases achieve very little and at the end of the day is it worth endangering the life or health of someone else over a crime being committed? Yes exceptions could be murder/terrorism but those are massive outliers that rarely involve car chases.
These comments are braindead. People being snarky about how you can’t rely on plates because stolen cars but then will ignore the fact that innocent people get killed from car chases
F this, gards should be told to bring chases to an end as quickly as possible by stopping the offender. If that means ramming the fucker off a cliff, fine by me. And they should ram into bike gangs even faster, cartwheel the fuckers.