Worth noting that the figure is an almost even split between suspects and Gardaí.
This is also interesting:
>Gardaí did not use their firearms in the first half of 2022 but used tasers 10 times and, in one incident, deployed a “non-lethal firearm”.
>This was during an incident in June, when gardaí received a call from an apparently armed man threatening suicide. A “controlled containment” operation was put in place and the man was confronted by members of the Armed Support Unit (ASU). When he appeared to point his handgun at gardaí, one ASU member fired an “SIR-X round” – a less-than lethal rubber bullet type projectile- from between 15m and 20m away.
>“It had an immediate effect, with the suspect instantly dropping to one knee,” the Garda said. This distracted the suspect enough for the ASU to move in an arrest the man. An imitation weapon resembling a Glock handgun was recovered from the scene.
>Another incident in June involving armed gardaí saw the deployment of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) to a hostage situation when a man was seen bringing a shotgun into a house days shortly after he had been served with a protection order.
>Negotiators and armed gardaí attempted to speak to the man for several hours before they made contact. “Instructions were given to the suspect as to how they were to exit the house, which they complied with,” the Garda said. “A shotgun was later recovered at the scene.”
Nothing unusual here I’d say. They’re could be an all time low next month. Shit happens, and doesn’t happen.
I think how little force and particularly lethal force the Guards ever use is commendable.
That’s on average less than 1 person in the entire country getting injured per day and almost all of them are justified because it’s an inevitability when dealing with scumbags, it’s a non story.
Did they ever send those special 300 Garda back to do their basic training?
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Worth noting that the figure is an almost even split between suspects and Gardaí.
This is also interesting:
>Gardaí did not use their firearms in the first half of 2022 but used tasers 10 times and, in one incident, deployed a “non-lethal firearm”.
>This was during an incident in June, when gardaí received a call from an apparently armed man threatening suicide. A “controlled containment” operation was put in place and the man was confronted by members of the Armed Support Unit (ASU). When he appeared to point his handgun at gardaí, one ASU member fired an “SIR-X round” – a less-than lethal rubber bullet type projectile- from between 15m and 20m away.
>“It had an immediate effect, with the suspect instantly dropping to one knee,” the Garda said. This distracted the suspect enough for the ASU to move in an arrest the man. An imitation weapon resembling a Glock handgun was recovered from the scene.
>Another incident in June involving armed gardaí saw the deployment of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) to a hostage situation when a man was seen bringing a shotgun into a house days shortly after he had been served with a protection order.
>Negotiators and armed gardaí attempted to speak to the man for several hours before they made contact. “Instructions were given to the suspect as to how they were to exit the house, which they complied with,” the Garda said. “A shotgun was later recovered at the scene.”
Nothing unusual here I’d say. They’re could be an all time low next month. Shit happens, and doesn’t happen.
I think how little force and particularly lethal force the Guards ever use is commendable.
That’s on average less than 1 person in the entire country getting injured per day and almost all of them are justified because it’s an inevitability when dealing with scumbags, it’s a non story.
Did they ever send those special 300 Garda back to do their basic training?