Rapporto di polizia del traffico principale: team di indagine “scioccato” dalla mancanza di interesse per il lavoro di alcuni gardaí

Report here: https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/publications/general-reports/independent-review-of-roads-policing-crowe-report-/independent-review-of-roads-policing-crowe-report-.pdf

I don’t think anyone else in the country is shocked, for a lot of them it’s a gravy train rather than a career they have any passion in

That’s the public/civil service in a nutshell, zero consequences for doing a shit job.

From the report:

>But the figures do prompt us to ask why, for example, one division has recorded two-and-a-half times the number of DWI detections per RPU member than another division; why two Garda divisions achieved almost double the number of speed detections in 2023 per RPU member when compared with the lowest-rated division of the five; and why one division appears to have been 57% more productive than the lowest-rated division across all Lifesaver detections per RPU member in 2023, and 52% more productive in the first ten months of 2024.

In the context of our site visit findings as detailed in Section 3 of this report, we believe that these productivity figures further illustrate a core problem within An Garda Síochána – the lack of effective supervision of RPUs and the inability (or unwillingness) of supervisors and more senior ranks to proactively supervise and manage the performance and productivity of RPU members.

Basically Garda management either is unwilling or unable to address productivity issues. And there are also issues with equipment not working.

Fundamentally however, if you can’t sanction someone – without blowback on you, also – then you can’t impact performance, really, can you?

I think at this stage we’ve all seen someone break traffic laws or really any law right in front of guards with no reaction whatsoever. I’ve seen them U-turn from a car being stolen by teenagers not long ago. I’m sure there are still good gardai but it seems a large part of the Dublin patrol doesn’t give a shit anymore and have left people to fend for themselves.

Biggest gang in Ireland.

Wow no way, could’ve never guessed 😕

It’s kind of wild how much the media has pushed this, “Roads Policing Gardai have no interest in their job” narrative, when the actual report they’re referring to found the exact opposite.

The actual conclusion was,

>We have observed some examples of a poor work ethic and culture within the RPUs we visited, but they are isolated, and it would be incorrect to characterise all RPUs in this way

Mainly whats going on is that there are a small number of members (around 10%) sitting around with their fingers up their hole. The fact that there are Gardai who’ve no interest in doing their job, should come as no suprise to anyone. There is no company or organisation on earth where everyone is engaged and productive. 10% would seem to me to be a pretty typical number.

The problem is that the ability of senior Gardai to deal with this behaviour is somewhat limited.

I’ve seen police in unmarked cars on the M50 and N7 stopping cars.

The inquiry team are shocked? Were they flown in from a different country? Because I can’t see how anyone that uses Irish roads would be shocked whatsoever to learn Gardaí have no interest in policing the roads.

We have some of the safest roads in Europe, and roads policing sounds boring as it is. I’m not wildly surprised by the findings.

When I was studying there were a few ex-Gardaí doing it too and most of them said traffic policing was viewed as a shit gig.

Driving 20 years and I’ve been stopped at a checkpoint once. I drive every single day on the m50 and the amount of truck drivers breaking the law is ridiculous and yet they are never stopped . Drove across Europe this year and I was pulled over multiple times just to check my papers and my driving licence