'It's a kip': Gardaí describe 'horrendous' conditions in stations
The GRA said people have resigned over the working conditions.
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The GRA said people have resigned over the working conditions.
The GRA said this issue is particularly impacting on new recruits who are on lower incomes.
The Commissioner said he could always do with more resources but his responsibility is to use the budget he is given effectively.
Flanagan said he will be meeting with the Garda Commissioner later today about the situation with feuding gangs in Drogheda.
Gardaí are calling on the Commissioner to provide clear protocols on the detention of drink drivers.
Garda representatives have said the force simply does not have the resources to police a hardened border.
“It’s not like we want to reunite the Dubliners and start growing beards all over the place.”
Rank-and-file gardaí have warned they are not prepared for the types of terrorist attacks that have been happening in Europe.
Garda management will present an interim report on the breath test scandal to the Policing Authority this week.
The Commissioner was responding to personal stories of gardai who had been attacked, including one who needed 22 staples in his elbow.
An internal dispute about two motions being removed from the GRA’s agenda is also likely to boil over this week.
Rank-and-file gardaí will discuss their concerns about armed cover at the Garda Representative Association annual conference.
Gardaí at the GRA conference this year said no other public servants would be expected to work in these kinds of conditions.
A Cork garda recounted an armed incident in which he believes lives were put at risk because of a lack of equipment.
General Secretary of the GRA PJ Stone was responding to allegations made in the Dáil by TDs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace.
In many cases offenders get off with suspended sentences or community service, they say.
Nóirín O’Sullivan said she does not have enough detail about the alleged incident, raised in the Dáil by Clare Daly, to even conclude that it was a murder.
Vice President Ciaran O’Neill said people are going into work “barely able to feed their families, juggling what bills to pay”.
Garda representatives have said there is a “sinister element” to some of the protests and their members need better protection.
Garda representatives are calling for tasers to be introduced.
The Garda Representative Association annual delegate conference begins tomorrow.
The General Secretary of the GRA said the Department of Justice should have no control over who the next Garda Commissioner is.
A support network for the LGBT community said things have improved in the force but there’s still a way to go.
Speaking at the GRA conference yesterday evening, O’Sullivan said the force is determined to apprehend the people who murdered the 41-year-old father of two.
Delegates at the GRA conference will debate the legal implications of doing this, with one who is in favour of the motion saying it would help keep intoxicated prisoners safe.
“It means we cannot have a free flowing conversation with the prisoner”, says one garda.
Interim Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan said the force is determined to focus on drugs and organised crime.
Minds out of the gutter, please, this is serious business.
Delegates at the GRA Conference have passed a motion calling for all gardaí to be given training in dealing with firearms and the various incidents in which they have to deal with them.
GRA President John Parker said Noirín O’Sullivan has the 100 per cent support of his association.
The GRA said businesses and communities are paying the price for poor resourcing and people are now deciding not to report some crimes at all.
Members of the GRA’s executive council said there is a need for a new system to address this, as well as legislation with harsher penalties for anyone who attacks a member of the force.
In his opening address to delegates at the Garda Representative Association Conference, President John Parker also says there had been draconian prosecutions by GSOC in some cases.