Why would anyone want to work for a job that you could get prosecuted for doing what you’re trained to do to keep the majority safe?
Fuck. That.
No funding and treated like shit by all sides. Would you blame them?
I’d join the guards but I’m 32 is that too old?
It’s a tough job but a job worth doing
Putting yourself in harms way for shite money and no way of protecting yourself against violent criminals.. why would you be arsed?
Not to mention 99% of the crimes put before the court are slaps on the wrist. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be to be arresting the same people for the same shite over and over again and they’re back at it again the next day. Pointless.
It’s an honourable job that deserves way better pay and respect than it gets. We have a good police force here, loads of them do the job as a vocation.
Society needs to be unequivocally on their side and grateful for them.
Know a retired Sergeant and he tells everyone its a terrible career to be in. You constantly have scumbags shoving their phones in your face, claiming to know what you can and can’t do etc and giving you terrible abuse at the same time.
The recent charges against the garda who was just doing his job when those 3 scrotes melted into the tarmac probably sealed it for a lot of people new in the profession or towards the end of their working life. Much safer to retire early and take a job with no risk or stress.
My buddy applied months ago and has been having back and forth convos and interviews for months and was then told he’s 500 on the waitlist, there’s people wanting to join but the process seems to take 6-12 months and people cannot wait around for that and will accept other jobs.
Maybe they don’t think they should be facing charges for chasing burglar rats who stole a car and killed themselves trying to escape. And all this after pouring petrol all over the car they had stolen so they could just burn it. Not to mention the complete lack of care for anyone using the road that they were traveling the wrong way on.
It’s a very ~~well~~ poorly paid job. Try it sometime.
Join up .. we promise we won’t put you on trial for doing your job. Only thing is, we can’t pay much coz we’ve blown the cash on junkets for RTE staff
Garda numbers falling when the overall population is expanding significantly. We’re in for a shite few years with crime, public services failing to keep pace with demographic change.
Let’s put to bed the notion that FG are the ‘law and order party’ please.
Years ago it was a great job when ireland was in a very different place but nowadays not a hope would i consider the profession. What those poor officers have to put up with, the violence, the disrespect. i feel.very sorry for the young ones starting out in this career.
My brother is a new Gard, and he had a long process to become one. He’s known people who also applied and it took them 3-4 years to be accepted. However in that time they needed to survive, so they got jobs in the interim.
So by the time the Gardai had finally accepted them, the person rejected the position because it now paid less than what they were earning.
Discrimination against those over 35 years of age (potential applicants) should be a crime.
It’s almost as if we have a dysfunctional police force, government, taxation and housing system.
The people who want to be police are usually the type who should never be police to begin with. It requires the right kind of personality to deal with people on a ground level, on a personal level.
Changes that seriously need to happen:
Pay & benefits increases for guards. Free private health insurance, and hell even offering high quality housing to all guards.
Idk how long Garda school is but it should be a full university degree and be offered in multiple special universities. It should be free to attend. In fact you should be paid a stipend (about as much as the Dole or some more) to attend. You should be able to master in different regions of policing and get a PhD and become a professor or policing researcher.
Guards equipped with specialized k9’s, and rubber bullet guns (actual rubber, not the rubber on metal stuff). Helmets instead of hats. Special trauma centers for guards, k9’s, detectives, special forces, etc.
More specialized units within An Gardaí Síochána. Mental health guards who are specifically educated to help people who are experiencing acute mental illness crisis or are attempting suicide.
Specific unit for domestic violence and child abuse. Specific garda unit for front line human trafficking. Specific ones for drug related crime and specific ones for traffic crime and carjacking. Specific special forces for terrorism crime.
More severe punishments for crimes. At this rate we’re basically letting rapists and wife beaters run around the streets. Because the maximum sentence in Ireland is life, it’s not safe to raise rape or domestic abuse to life imprisonment. Something like 30 years in jail, the rest of your life in house arrest or only allowed out with a chaperone for rape/DV could be useful.
General assault needs to have a minimum sentence, at least 5 years imo. Shanking should have a minimum of 15, and being chaperoned for at least another 10 years.
However there should be rehabilitation and education in prison. Leaving criminals to rot is what they deserve but it leads to higher recidivism.
Decrease the punishments of using drugs, have the HSE and only the HSE provide safe supply (and increase funding to the HSE as well) and needle exchange, then harsh crackdowns on those selling drugs, and rehabilitation in prison for those selling.
More availability of public housing will mean less homelessness, and more security and less stress, leading to less overworked parents and less of their teen children running around causing havoc.
Mandatory philosophy classes in school from junior infants so that children learn more respect for each other, less bullying of each other, and will display less racism, hatred against LGBTQ, and hatred against disabled people. This would mean less assaults and in general.
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Why would anyone want to work for a job that you could get prosecuted for doing what you’re trained to do to keep the majority safe?
Fuck. That.
No funding and treated like shit by all sides. Would you blame them?
I’d join the guards but I’m 32 is that too old?
It’s a tough job but a job worth doing
Putting yourself in harms way for shite money and no way of protecting yourself against violent criminals.. why would you be arsed?
Not to mention 99% of the crimes put before the court are slaps on the wrist. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be to be arresting the same people for the same shite over and over again and they’re back at it again the next day. Pointless.
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It’s an honourable job that deserves way better pay and respect than it gets. We have a good police force here, loads of them do the job as a vocation.
Society needs to be unequivocally on their side and grateful for them.
Know a retired Sergeant and he tells everyone its a terrible career to be in. You constantly have scumbags shoving their phones in your face, claiming to know what you can and can’t do etc and giving you terrible abuse at the same time.
The recent charges against the garda who was just doing his job when those 3 scrotes melted into the tarmac probably sealed it for a lot of people new in the profession or towards the end of their working life. Much safer to retire early and take a job with no risk or stress.
My buddy applied months ago and has been having back and forth convos and interviews for months and was then told he’s 500 on the waitlist, there’s people wanting to join but the process seems to take 6-12 months and people cannot wait around for that and will accept other jobs.
Maybe they don’t think they should be facing charges for chasing burglar rats who stole a car and killed themselves trying to escape. And all this after pouring petrol all over the car they had stolen so they could just burn it. Not to mention the complete lack of care for anyone using the road that they were traveling the wrong way on.
It’s a very ~~well~~ poorly paid job. Try it sometime.
Join up .. we promise we won’t put you on trial for doing your job. Only thing is, we can’t pay much coz we’ve blown the cash on junkets for RTE staff
Garda numbers falling when the overall population is expanding significantly. We’re in for a shite few years with crime, public services failing to keep pace with demographic change.
Let’s put to bed the notion that FG are the ‘law and order party’ please.
Years ago it was a great job when ireland was in a very different place but nowadays not a hope would i consider the profession. What those poor officers have to put up with, the violence, the disrespect. i feel.very sorry for the young ones starting out in this career.
My brother is a new Gard, and he had a long process to become one. He’s known people who also applied and it took them 3-4 years to be accepted. However in that time they needed to survive, so they got jobs in the interim.
So by the time the Gardai had finally accepted them, the person rejected the position because it now paid less than what they were earning.
Discrimination against those over 35 years of age (potential applicants) should be a crime.
It’s almost as if we have a dysfunctional police force, government, taxation and housing system.
The people who want to be police are usually the type who should never be police to begin with. It requires the right kind of personality to deal with people on a ground level, on a personal level.
Changes that seriously need to happen:
Pay & benefits increases for guards. Free private health insurance, and hell even offering high quality housing to all guards.
Idk how long Garda school is but it should be a full university degree and be offered in multiple special universities. It should be free to attend. In fact you should be paid a stipend (about as much as the Dole or some more) to attend. You should be able to master in different regions of policing and get a PhD and become a professor or policing researcher.
Guards equipped with specialized k9’s, and rubber bullet guns (actual rubber, not the rubber on metal stuff). Helmets instead of hats. Special trauma centers for guards, k9’s, detectives, special forces, etc.
More specialized units within An Gardaí Síochána. Mental health guards who are specifically educated to help people who are experiencing acute mental illness crisis or are attempting suicide.
Specific unit for domestic violence and child abuse. Specific garda unit for front line human trafficking. Specific ones for drug related crime and specific ones for traffic crime and carjacking. Specific special forces for terrorism crime.
More severe punishments for crimes. At this rate we’re basically letting rapists and wife beaters run around the streets. Because the maximum sentence in Ireland is life, it’s not safe to raise rape or domestic abuse to life imprisonment. Something like 30 years in jail, the rest of your life in house arrest or only allowed out with a chaperone for rape/DV could be useful.
General assault needs to have a minimum sentence, at least 5 years imo. Shanking should have a minimum of 15, and being chaperoned for at least another 10 years.
However there should be rehabilitation and education in prison. Leaving criminals to rot is what they deserve but it leads to higher recidivism.
Decrease the punishments of using drugs, have the HSE and only the HSE provide safe supply (and increase funding to the HSE as well) and needle exchange, then harsh crackdowns on those selling drugs, and rehabilitation in prison for those selling.
More availability of public housing will mean less homelessness, and more security and less stress, leading to less overworked parents and less of their teen children running around causing havoc.
Mandatory philosophy classes in school from junior infants so that children learn more respect for each other, less bullying of each other, and will display less racism, hatred against LGBTQ, and hatred against disabled people. This would mean less assaults and in general.