everything else is keeping with enforcing the law which is his job and perhaps if we had more like him this cushy attitude of letting car tax run out, speeding because 'you know the local roads' and drinking after hours because you are 'enjoying your night out' might actually be stopped.
I'm by no means a model citizen (I'll admit to going above the speed limit regularily and am always the last person to leave the pub) but I say stop giving him a hard time for doing his job at the end of day.
His job is to keep the peace. Thats the LAW. No breach of peace, no law is broke.
Everything else is usually to do with a money making racket named the Criminal Courts System of Ireland. Did he take an oath to uphold the duties of a Peace Officer or was there another Oath brought in which holds him to become a Policy Enforcement Officer or Revenue Collection Officer?