Worst police force in Europe
Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007Did you ever hear of Frank Shortt?
Probably not, but I won’t be long telling you who he is.
Frank Shortt owned a bar in Donegal, and in 1995 he was convicted of allowing drugs to be sold on his premises. The bastard, you might say. Indeed.
In its judgement last Wednesday, the Irish Supreme Court increased an earlier award to Frank Shortt for miscarriage of justice from 1.93 million euros to 4.5 million euros.
He was imprisoned, lost his business, his family and his health and was struck off as an accountant because Irish policemen lied to put him in jail. As Mr Justice Hardiman remarked in his judgement, Frank Shortt was “perjured into prison” by the Irish police.
This was one of the most damning judgements ever handed down by the Irish Supreme Court and continues a long line of disastrous investigations into the most inept and corrupt police force in Europe.
You only have to read the Morris report to see what these guys are like.
Here’s Mr Justice Morris, quoted in an earlier post:
The Tribunal has been staggered by the amount of indiscipline and insubordination it has found in the Garda force. There is a small, but disproportionately influential, core of mischief-making members who will not obey orders, who will not follow procedures, who will not tell the truth and who have no respect for their officers.
These are the people we pay to stand between us and the criminals. Maybe we should reconsider. Maybe we need to pay criminals to stand between us and the Guards. Maybe there isn’t any difference.
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March 24th, 2007
Where are the Black and Tans when you need them?
March 25th, 2007
you sound surprised!they are just following the example set by the political leaders.people like noel dempsey bertie and the rest of them must have taken bribes from shell.and as for the leader of the main opposition,what a complete wanker.we need a lot more morris tribunals with real powers to strip them of their ill gotten gains.good luck with your rants,you are an breath of fresh air.crossman mayo.
March 25th, 2007
And there was me thinking TJ & TJ on Today FM was comedy. It’s the best ever piece of factual radio programming ever.
March 27th, 2007
I was on a jury once and a garda was called up to read out the interview he’d carried out with the defendant. After about five minutes of incomprehensible yeses, nos and maybes as he read out the defendant’s answers we finally had to ask the judge if he could possibly read out the questions as well so we’d know what the answers were relating to.
The response? “But your Honour, I only wrote down the answers…”
Honestly. You couldn’t make it up…
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I agree that we have the worst police force in Europe if not the world,i live in a very bad part of town and although we have our fair share of scum bags the majority of our young people are not involved in crime or drugs,this does not however stop them from being subjected to the same kind of mistreatment by the Gardai.Recently a nineteen year old kid was found dead inside a cell in our local station,as usual no explanation was offered
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