Comments on: Irish Police Get New Weapons

By: b3n

b3n — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:28:31 +0000

I’m an asmathic and just one whiff of lavendar can send me into breathing convulsions, I’d hate to think what pepper spray would do to me. You’re right Bock, who did they test this on?

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:43:38 +0000

Sheepworrier: Of course. Didn’t they do it in the North?

Niall: Not for the present cops. We need new cops. Professional ones.

Mermaid: True. Those marauding gangs of asthmatics are becoming a big problem in this country, and maybe in britain too.

Sniffle & Cry: That’s a response so bizarre that all I can say is Really?

By: Sniffle & Cry

Sniffle & Cry — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:24:31 +0000

Sikhs are forbidden to ingest pepper. Up pepper, vote no to Turbans.

By: mermaid of moorgate

mermaid of moorgate — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:24:51 +0000

Asthmatics should not be committing crimes, so if they are allergic to pepper, it’s their own sodding fault. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

By: niall

niall — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:51:49 +0000

Tasers for gardai could be bad, as they can abuse the “non” lethal aspect of it and taser people they don’t like out of spite. There would be no reprise for the victim as the gardai are completely immune from all prosecution

By: sheepworrier

sheepworrier — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:48:01 +0000

Do you think there could be a “a properly trained, professional, disciplined police force” in Ireland?

Theres still that ‘ah, sure it’ll be grand lads, sure lets go have a pint an we’ll forget the whole thing’ attitude in the gardai in rural areas (dunno about Dublin).

By: Bock

Bock — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:16:07 +0000

Nora: I understand your concern. My own desire would be to have a properly trained, professional, disciplined police force.

By: Nora

Nora — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:09:39 +0000

I’ll read up on the European police forces, Bock. I was really more concerned about the Taser thing when I wrote the above.

We do already have Gardaí who are armed. They’re just not in uniform. And after the Jean Charles de Menezes affair in the UK, I have no desire to see more armed officers here. None at all.

By: Bock

Bock — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:57:14 +0000

Medbh: I think we need a proper police force, properly trained, and we need to give them guns.

Nora: Police throughout Europe are armed and there isn't the American gun-crime problem. Likewise, and maybe more relevant, it doesn't exist in Canada, despite their police being armed.

By: Nora

Nora — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:46:37 +0000

Give them guns and we’ll have gun crime on the level of the US.

I’d be more worried about tasers then Mace. There’s a pilot scheme with them in the UK, and you know that if the UK adopts them we probably will. Tasers are called non-lethal, but can be lethal to the very young, old, or ill. Someone with a heart problem for example. Buzzzz - and you’re gone.

The only thing I can think of recently that we didn’t adopt straight from the UK was the smoking ban. I said to myself, “Jaysus, do you mean we can think for ourselves?”