Upcoming Events

National | Crime and Justice

no events match your query!

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Another Flaw in Ed Miliband?s Clean Power Agenda Wed May 14, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
When will Ed Miliband face facts on wind power, asks Ben Pile. As another key wind farm falls through, leaving his 2030 target in tatters, he must accept that wind power is not getting cheaper; bills are not going down.
The post Another Flaw in Ed Miliband’s Clean Power Agenda appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed May 14, 2025 01:00 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Criminals to Be Released After a Third of Prison Sentence Tue May 13, 2025 21:33 | Will Jones
Prisoners will be released from jail as little as a third of the way through their sentences if they behave well, under Government plans to tackle the?overcrowding crisis.
The post Criminals to Be Released After a Third of Prison Sentence appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Not ?CSE?. It?s Child Rape Tue May 13, 2025 17:30 | Joanna Gray
It's not 'CSE'. It's child rape, says Joanna Gray. Enough with the sterile acronyms that seem designed to conceal the horror. Enough of the "bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language" (Wittgenstein).
The post It’s Not ‘CSE’. It’s Child Rape appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The NHS No Longer Recognises the Reality of Biological Sex Tue May 13, 2025 15:35 | Caroline Ffiske
It's going to take more than a Supreme Court judgment to flush gender pseudoscience out of the NHS, says Caroline Ffiske. In every policy and definition the NHS has dropped biological sex in favour of subjective feelings.
The post The NHS No Longer Recognises the Reality of Biological Sex appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

The PDs -a party of vision?

category national | crime and justice | opinion/analysis author Wednesday September 20, 2006 17:53author by chomh glic le fear dlí Report this post to the editors

This week Michael McDowell was on Today FM - he claimed that his party is a party of vision but then went on to say that the PDs propose to take an idea from the UK - to have Garda stations with bad records of solving crime inspected on a regular basis.

This week Michael McDowell was on Today FM - he claimed that his party is a party of vision but then went on to say that the PDs propose to take an idea from the UK - to have Garda stations with bad records of solving crime inspected on a regular basis.
In this case, it could be regarded as a good proposal, but taking YET ANOTHER idea from the UK can hardly be synonymous with 'vision'.

To take just one aspect of PD policy- policing- the PDs have consistently nabbed ideas from the UK; ASBOs, a Garda reserve force, increased use of CCTV cameras etc etc.
Is it that the PDs are so unimaginative or do we still as a nation completely lack self-esteem to take our own initiative?!

I tend to think both are true- our government and authorities never cease to rehash old ideas from the UK (and the US) - very often adopting policies that have failed.

author by Robocop - RTSpublication date Wed Sep 20, 2006 21:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors


Other colleagues promoted include the Emergency Response guys at Abbeylara
and the Silver Bullets. The vision always was that you get on when you take down.
Promotion and early retirement, a job for life.

I won't be on the streets anymore.

 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy