It’s not even just road/traffic enforcement, there’s just no Gardai anywhere these days. Everyone is noticing the increase in anti-social behaviour and plain dodgyness in Dublin these days and you never see Gardai walking the streets at all.
>An Garda Síochána said: “On average, every hour of every day, [gardaí] detect at least one driver for alleged drink or drug driving and approximately 20 drivers for speeding, and every 24 hours detect nearly 50 drivers for using a mobile phones, 16 drivers for not wearing seatbelts, 15 drivers for dangerous driving, 20 unaccompanied learner drivers and 6 drivers for cars with defective tyres”.
The headline might make you think “oh I guess Helen McEntee does do her job sometimes” but no, this is a junior minister (Jack Chambers) they’re talking about. All McEntee did was put out a press statement saying “oh well I’m sure the Gardai know what they’re doing”
The Wire really was right about how politics and the media interact with policing.
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It’s not even just road/traffic enforcement, there’s just no Gardai anywhere these days. Everyone is noticing the increase in anti-social behaviour and plain dodgyness in Dublin these days and you never see Gardai walking the streets at all.
>An Garda Síochána said: “On average, every hour of every day, [gardaí] detect at least one driver for alleged drink or drug driving and approximately 20 drivers for speeding, and every 24 hours detect nearly 50 drivers for using a mobile phones, 16 drivers for not wearing seatbelts, 15 drivers for dangerous driving, 20 unaccompanied learner drivers and 6 drivers for cars with defective tyres”.
From what we know from [here](https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rcd/recordedcrimedetection2022/fixedpaymentoffences/), there were 777 drink driving detections in 2022, and 1,069 in 2019. If there were detections on ‘every hour of every day’, we would have 8760 detections.
The headline might make you think “oh I guess Helen McEntee does do her job sometimes” but no, this is a junior minister (Jack Chambers) they’re talking about. All McEntee did was put out a press statement saying “oh well I’m sure the Gardai know what they’re doing”
The Wire really was right about how politics and the media interact with policing.