A Waterford couple is to lodge a complaint with the Garda Ombudsman following the robbery of one of their cars from outside their home in the Kilcohan area late last Friday night.
Their action was prompted by their perception of how local Gardaí dealt with the incident, which a local City Councillor described as ‘thoroughly disappointing’.
The car in question was stolen from outside their property at approximately 11.30pm and was found burned out at Saint Herblain Park just 20 minutes later.
A male and female, believed to be in their 20s took the vehicle, with the male having previously entered the couple’s home through the front door which at the time wasn’t locked.
Grabbing a clutch of keys from the hallway (including the other car’s keys), the male eventually entered the car parked on the road outside their home and drove away from the scene.
At the time of the incident, only the wife of the couple in question was present in the property, running outside following the commotion, as the car sped away. The door was unlocked as she expected her husband to return to their home around that time. A call was immediately made to Waterford Gardaí, but it’s the initial reaction of local officers which disappointed both the couple and Fine Gael Councillor John Cummins.
See The Munster Express newspaper for full story.
Yje Gardai in this country are only good as Government henchmen for giving out fines, each year particularly in Waterford they tell of how the Waterford people areso pleased and impressed by their work and work ethics, well I can tell you that the facts and figures that are produced to the public as to how happy the public are ‘so happy’ with them are fudged to high heaven, they were even caught for this only a recent few yeas ago. The Gardai couldn’t even catch the Killer of Meg Walsh. To me Irish Gardai are a disgrace and an embarrisment. They dont protect people like myself (law obiding citizens) they protect the criminals by not being able to catvh them. Too many Gardai have attitudes anyway and talk to nice people the wrong way. I will never help a Garda again after reading this article.
What makes me laugh is the garda are always banging on about the fact they are under resourced. Yet they spend a lot of time and resources handing out spurious fines for an array of silly driving offences.
An indebt look at how Garda perform their duties is required; I would also ask the question. How many Garda have points on their license? I would guess NONE, also how many Garda wives or husbands have points on their license, I would also guess NONE, and then there are the girlfriends and boyfriends, children and parents of these Garda. If there are 20,000 Garda in the state this would make over 100,000 people exempt from paying fines and receiving penalty points which leaves the rest of us mugs paying through the nose for silly laws that have been introduced by an incompetent government. The scare mongering tactics of Garda on law abiding decent people must stop. The real criminals are not afraid of the Garda, why would they be? Their treated well, receive state legal aid and are then released with a caution or suspended depending on who they murdered or they just go back to the Leinster House.
In defense of the guards, in my experience the vast majority are quite good, in any organisation you will get a few bad apples unfortunatly. Not helping the guards isn´t going to be much use to anyone, is it Tony?
“paying fines and receiving penalty points which leaves the rest of us mugs paying through the nose for silly laws that have been introduced by an incompetent government”
please suggest what are the “silly laws” that you have been unfortunately targeted by? as you complain about fines and points i can only assume you have a problem with the POLICE stopping people driving dangerously, speeding, having no tax, no insurance, no licence, or a car not suitable to be on the roads?? you might also suggest a country in the world that these would NOT bring some sort of penalties? moan all you want about having to pay for breaking the above limits but i think that makes you the incompetent one…
The problem with that dump of a country is that there are no roads suitable for cars in the first place. 99% of the thick ould guards are only there for the sake of having a poxy job and dont give a flying /uck about the LAW and thick paddy public knows this. Let the insurance companies police the uninsured. Why should the stupid taxpayer pay the gardi to do the policeing for these multi billion dollar private ins companies?? Any car [even a brand new merc or bmw ] that is driven on those so called roads over there for 200 miles or so would fail the NCT test so that stupid and unfair test should be banned until every road in the old shod is made 100% road worthy. All the kids here in the states get there licence through school aged 16 to 17 so why cant yere useless schools with yere useless teachers do the same? Anyone involved in the law in Ieland is only in it for the money and that makes for real bad enforsement. NICE BROWN ENVELOPES ANYONE
I can´t believe that the Munster express actually puts the rubbish that this antony character spouts up on your page. He is barely literate & abviously wumming.
CRIME…. Waterford is now an easy touch for crime,,, IF someone calls the Guards at lets say 2am and says there is a crime in “lets say ballybeg” the guards will say WE weill be there in 30 minutes, so then the people that WANT to do the crime elsewhere, can have time to do it,,, IT IS SO STUPID… as Waterford Police only has a very fer POLICE cars to get around all the estates.. BUT loads of Guards SITTING in the station WAITING for the crime to happen !!!!!
Waterford needs a full shake-up.. MOVE all the present Guards out and re-instatae with ALL new guards from another county ..THEN there will be no favouritism to some people… WHICH is VERY high in Waterford
gardai all a bunch of gangsters in my book