Let’s roll out a national public transport service that works, then we can talk about increasing the taxes I pay. Currently I have 2 buses a day in my area. I don’t think the transport police unit will be needed in my area.
No brainer really
Isn’t this just putting a plaster over the real problem, which is the lack of repercussions for these teenage scumbags causing all the trouble?
What would be the benefit of a dedicated unit?
I get the idea of a dedicated transport police when you’ve a number of police jurisdictions that a train may cross, like say in the UK. But here, most of the issues are either within Dublin, or are on longer distance stuff where you’re not really going to have a guard on board for big distances, you just need good links to local guards on route who can intercept the issue at the next station or whatever.
It seems more like a more guard patrols thing more than a need for a specialist unit?
Do they not already have a security team that run about? No point upgrading it to a police if they’re still going to get away with whatever they do.
This is probably a sensible development long term. My only suggestion, is why not echo the European model and come up with something like the Gendarmerie where Irish Defence Forces get put on rotation? Surely this could come under their mandate as a defence force that takes part in UN peacekeeping missions. Would be interested for anybody serving opinion on this.
So the current system is:
1. Garda Síochána might come out and arrest someone perpetrating anti-social behaviour on public transport
2. Judge pats offender on the head, notes that there are no ‘meeni’ies for the angles, and lets him off without any sort of consequences for his actions.
And this revolutionary change will transform the system into:
1. Garda Iompar might come out and arrest someone perpetrating anti-social behaviour on public transport
2. Judge pats offender on the head, notes that there are no ‘meeni’ies for the angles, and lets him off without any sort of consequences for his actions.
Guessing 20% don’t take public transport
I’d support it if we had Irish police that worked for Ireland. This would be more like our transport system being captured by British terrorists to fight the war on drugs that funds the UDA and UVF.
This isn’t a matter FFG should be allowed handle.
Since when does the government give a shit what the people think?
Waste of time and money. Just need more Gardai and for the Gardai we have to do a better job.
Lets not resort to populism just yet. The general public as a group are pretty uninformed about most stuff.
Why not just set up a Dublin metropolitan unit or something like that because obviously they’re not going to be anywhere else? Nowhere else in the country has dense enough public transport infrastructure to support dedicated Gardai.
Not necessarily a bad idea though as the few times I’ve gotten public transport within Dublin but I’ve seen some ridiculous displays of degeneracy. I can’t even imagine what I’d see if I actually used it regularly.
I’m here in Lisbon, there are no dedicated transport police but the regular police do their rounds on the train too, it’s common to see them walk up all the carriages at night
So basically 20% of the population are scrotes.
See if we had public transport police patrolling trains etc., then the public might get the mad idea in their heads that police should patrol other areas where crime frequently happens.
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What’s the sound of the transport police?
Let’s roll out a national public transport service that works, then we can talk about increasing the taxes I pay. Currently I have 2 buses a day in my area. I don’t think the transport police unit will be needed in my area.
No brainer really
Isn’t this just putting a plaster over the real problem, which is the lack of repercussions for these teenage scumbags causing all the trouble?
What would be the benefit of a dedicated unit?
I get the idea of a dedicated transport police when you’ve a number of police jurisdictions that a train may cross, like say in the UK. But here, most of the issues are either within Dublin, or are on longer distance stuff where you’re not really going to have a guard on board for big distances, you just need good links to local guards on route who can intercept the issue at the next station or whatever.
It seems more like a more guard patrols thing more than a need for a specialist unit?
Do they not already have a security team that run about? No point upgrading it to a police if they’re still going to get away with whatever they do.
This is probably a sensible development long term. My only suggestion, is why not echo the European model and come up with something like the Gendarmerie where Irish Defence Forces get put on rotation? Surely this could come under their mandate as a defence force that takes part in UN peacekeeping missions. Would be interested for anybody serving opinion on this.
So the current system is:
1. Garda Síochána might come out and arrest someone perpetrating anti-social behaviour on public transport
2. Judge pats offender on the head, notes that there are no ‘meeni’ies for the angles, and lets him off without any sort of consequences for his actions.
And this revolutionary change will transform the system into:
1. Garda Iompar might come out and arrest someone perpetrating anti-social behaviour on public transport
2. Judge pats offender on the head, notes that there are no ‘meeni’ies for the angles, and lets him off without any sort of consequences for his actions.
Guessing 20% don’t take public transport
I’d support it if we had Irish police that worked for Ireland. This would be more like our transport system being captured by British terrorists to fight the war on drugs that funds the UDA and UVF.
This isn’t a matter FFG should be allowed handle.
Since when does the government give a shit what the people think?
Waste of time and money. Just need more Gardai and for the Gardai we have to do a better job.
Lets not resort to populism just yet. The general public as a group are pretty uninformed about most stuff.
Why not just set up a Dublin metropolitan unit or something like that because obviously they’re not going to be anywhere else? Nowhere else in the country has dense enough public transport infrastructure to support dedicated Gardai.
Not necessarily a bad idea though as the few times I’ve gotten public transport within Dublin but I’ve seen some ridiculous displays of degeneracy. I can’t even imagine what I’d see if I actually used it regularly.
I’m here in Lisbon, there are no dedicated transport police but the regular police do their rounds on the train too, it’s common to see them walk up all the carriages at night
So basically 20% of the population are scrotes.
See if we had public transport police patrolling trains etc., then the public might get the mad idea in their heads that police should patrol other areas where crime frequently happens.