His most major investigation was a school break in case, right after giving a talk in the same school about how crime is wrong. I remember him fingerprinting the scene.
There is a lot of admin for the Gardai. Seeing as HQ is in Dublin, it would be more useful to understand how many of these are actually Active in frontline duties and not say functions like IT,HR, etc
In my hometown of Donegal, the government spent around 1.5 million building a new garda station over the past few years.
It was finished 2 years ago. There are no gardai in it during weekdays. Just a sign on the door with the contact number for the Ballyshannon garda station.
So while Donegal technically has more gardai per capita than Dublin, it doesn’t really matter when the nearest gardai is 20+ kilometres away. It’s like if the nearest gardai to O’Connell street was in Maynooth.
A thousand people on O’Connel St will take less Guards to patrol than a thousand people scattered across a rural area perhaps?
What we really need to know is the crime rate and the type of crime per county and the time of the crime.
Maybe we have Garda on duty at the wrong times and days
I’d be interested to see Longford/Mayo/Roscommon figures split up.
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For anyone curious here’s a wiki table with other countries
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_police_officers
Meath? 👀
In my old hometown, we had one.
His most major investigation was a school break in case, right after giving a talk in the same school about how crime is wrong. I remember him fingerprinting the scene.
There is a lot of admin for the Gardai. Seeing as HQ is in Dublin, it would be more useful to understand how many of these are actually Active in frontline duties and not say functions like IT,HR, etc
In my hometown of Donegal, the government spent around 1.5 million building a new garda station over the past few years.
It was finished 2 years ago. There are no gardai in it during weekdays. Just a sign on the door with the contact number for the Ballyshannon garda station.
So while Donegal technically has more gardai per capita than Dublin, it doesn’t really matter when the nearest gardai is 20+ kilometres away. It’s like if the nearest gardai to O’Connell street was in Maynooth.
A thousand people on O’Connel St will take less Guards to patrol than a thousand people scattered across a rural area perhaps?
What we really need to know is the crime rate and the type of crime per county and the time of the crime.
Maybe we have Garda on duty at the wrong times and days
I’d be interested to see Longford/Mayo/Roscommon figures split up.
There’s a big geographical spread there.